We are a team of scientists with a wide range of skills and experience both at the computational and experimental fronts. We love immunology and we do it with great passion. We also love to connect, collaborate and share our findings so don’t be afraid, come talk to us, we look forward to working with you.
Victor Greiff, PhD
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Dr. Greiff started his research group in 2018 at the University of Oslo (UiO), Department of Immunology. The group develops computational and experimental tools to decipher, read, predict and re-engineer antibody and T-cell repertoires with the aim to develop fundamentally novel immunodiagnostics, vaccines and immunotherapeutics. He uses his time away from science to catch up on current immunology topics, technology developments, and state of the art algorithms – wait a minute, that’s just more science!
Brij Bhusan Mehta, PhD
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW (co-advised with Fridjof Lund-Johansen)
Brij received his PhD in protein engineering and protein biochemistry under supervision of Prof. Manni LuthraGuptasarma from PGIMER, Chandigarh (India). He is currently looking to gain deep insights into antibody-antigen interactions to decode molecular language of immunity using recombinant molecular biology, surface display system, next-gen sequencing platform and AI. Outside lab, he likes to get lost into forest trails and play club cricket in Oslo
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Puneet Rawat, PhD
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Puneet received his PhD in Computational Biology under the supervision of Prof. M. Michael Gromiha at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is currently working on structural analysis of antibodies using Machine Learning techniques. He generally reads paper and/or listen music in his leisure time. Away from science, he loves travelling to new places and capturing the moments in his camera.
Habib Bashour, PhD
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Habib got his BSc in Pharmacy & Medicinal Chemistry in Syria, MSc in Biotechnology in the UK, and PhD also in the UK – at the University of Warwick. Habib has joined our team to work on computational immunology projects with particular focus on BCR repertoire analysis and antibody developability. He uses his free time to cook for his friends (no food poisoning cases yet) and cycle around the English countryside
Lucas Weissenborn, PhD
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Lucas completed his doctorate in medicinal chemistry under Prof. Jutta Eichler at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). As a pharmacist by training, he is fascinated by newly emerging methods for developing novel drugs and therapies. In his spare time, he plays several musical instruments, writes songs and even lived as a studio and session musician for some time before returning to science as a postdoc in Oslo. Here he also likes to discover the beautiful Norwegian landscape on occasional hikes.
Maria Francesca Abbate, PhD
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Maria Francesca has a background in theoretical physics from La Sapienza in Rome and completed her PhD in physics at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where she focused on computational immunology. During her PhD, she developed methods to identify antigen-specific B cell receptors using statistical models and experimental data. She’s now part of our team, working on BCR repertoire analysis and finding antibodies that bind to specific antigens. Outside of science, she’s a big fan of Disney and Broadway musicals and is currently studying musical theatre with the dream of performing on stage one day.
Klara Kropivšek, PhD
VISITING POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Klara Kropivšek holds a PhD in Systems Biology from Prof. Berend Snijder Lab at ETH Zürich, where she worked on precision medicine approaches for multiple myeloma. Building on her interest in plasma cell–derived diseases and therapeutics, she now focuses on nanobody research—exploring their potential as next-generation binders.
As a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Nova Gorica, she is currently collaborating with the Greiff Lab in Oslo. Her project combines naive nanobody library analysis with computational docking to better understand and predict nanobody–antigen interactions.
Outside of the lab, Klara enjoys hiking, exploring the fjords, and spending time by the sea and in the mountains.
Milena Pavlović
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW. Co-advised with Geir Kjetil Sandve.
Milena is a PhD student working on immune repertoires and machine learning (co-supervised with Geir Kjetil Sandve). She obtained her BSc and MSc in computer science from the University of Nis, Serbia. She enjoys reading and learning about new languages. She doesn’t really enjoy food but she does sleep at night (not a robot from the future!). Although, she struggles sometimes to press “confirm you are not a robot” whenever a captcha presents this question.
Andrei Slabodkin
PhD Candidate
Andrei received his Ms in Bioinformatics in St. Petersburg (Russia), and spent some time working on B cells phylogenetics. Now he is trying to understand the connection between germline variations and differences in B(T)CR repertoires. He uses his free time (which of course he, being a PhD student, should not have) to read fiction and walk around the city.
Khang Lê Quý
PhD Candidate
Khang completed his master’s degree in Biosciences at the University of Oslo. Currently, he is continuing as a PhD candidate at UiO working on single-cell sequencing and mass spectrometry under the supervision of Igor and Victor. He is currently building an integrated workflow for sequencing and mass spectrometry for antibodies using personalized reference data. In addition, he is working together with Brij using yeast display to perform library-on-library scanning of antigen-antibody affinities. Outside of science, he enjoys reading about the history, culture, and geography of other countries, and travelling there as well.
Robert Frank
PhD Candidate
Robert is a PhD student in computational immunology and obtained his Master Degree in Computer Science in Germany (FSU-Jena) with a focus on machine learning and statistics. His PhD-Topic is about predicting antibody-antigen binding with machine learning. In his free time, he practices sword fencing, hiking, fitness stuff and learning new things.
Jahn Zhong
PhD Candidate
Jahn graduated from the Integrated Immunology program at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen, Germany. Driven by curiosity he is now at Greiff lab exploring protein spaces and resolving error messages while (re-)learning interesting mathematical concepts he never thought he’d need (again). In his free time he likes to play chess, listen to audio books, nerd out about coffee or cook some delicious food.
Eva Smorodina
PhD candidate
Eva is a Bioengineering and Bioinformatics specialist student at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She is currently working as a computational structural biologist in Virtual Structural Biology Group (Russia) and Strodel Group (Germany). Eva has joined Greiff Lab to learn machine learning methods in structural immunology and now she is working with Habib on antibody developability. In her practically absent free time, Eva enjoys horse riding, reading, traveling, chatting with friends, and learning something new.
Marina Frolenkova
PhD Candidate
Marina is a Bioengineering and Bioinformatics student at Lomonosov Moscow State University with experience in molecular modeling and ML. Her interest in computational immunology brought her to the Greiff lab, where she focuses on antibody repertoire analysis using protein language models. Beyond her academic pursuits, Marina enjoys painting, reading and exploring new destinations. She’s also a big fan of video games.
Niccolò Cardente
PhD Candidate
Niccolò graduated from “Molecular and Medical Biotechnology” Master’s degree in Verona, but did his bachelor and master’s thesis in Genova, where while studying CLL he fell in love with immune repertoires and antibodies. Fascinated by the AI world, he is now at the Greiff lab exploring immune repertoire via protein language models. In the free time he likes to play board games, experiment with unique cocktails recipes and play videogames. He lost a bet with Eva, and now he has to try pineapple-pizza, and as an Italian he probably won’t survive…
Aygul Minnegalieva
PhD candidate
Aygul did her Bachelor’s in immunology (Moscow State University). She was mesmerized by the promise of ML/DL in the field but didn’t understand a thing. She mustered her courage and dove head-first to Data Science Master Program (Higher School of Economics University). Now she is pursuing her PhD in GreiffLab, working on improving antibody antigen binding prediction using machine learning. She also does wet lab in Japan. She enjoys dancing, she dances in any circumstance, especially while working!
Eugen Ursu
Guest PhD Candidate
Eugen is a medical school graduate from Romania and has been working since 2019 in bioinformatics research at the Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, as part of the Systems Biology of Aging Group. Currently, Eugen is a PhD Candidate working on investigating and improving sequence-based antibody specificity prediction systems. Outside science, he particularly enjoys squash, hiking, and winter sports.
Chiara Ballerini
PhD candidate
Chiara is a PhD student at the University of florence. She gradueted in medicine at Sapienza University (Rome) and always have been interested in neuroimmunology particularly MS. She stumbled in bioinformatics and got interested in TCR and BCR analysis in autoimmunity. In free time she likes trekking, listening to electronic music and hanging out with friends
Martin Pezous
Guest PhD student, co-supervised by Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz
Martin is a PhD student jointly based at the Greiff Lab (University of Oslo) and the i3 Lab (Paris). His research focuses on the T-cell receptor repertoire of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), in the context of developing novel immunotherapies. He holds a biotechnology engineering degree (MSc) and is especially interested in systems thinking in physiology and pathology. Outside the lab, Martin enjoys producing music, video games and biking around the city (often in circles, thanks to his notoriously bad sense of direction).
Evgenii Egorov
MSc student
Evgenii is a student at the Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at Moscow State University. After working on several immunology-related projects Evgenii understood that he really wants to continue his research in this field, and so he came to the Greiff lab, where he uses protein language models to analyze antibody repertoires. In his free time, Evgenii likes playing video games (big Witcher and Dark Souls fan) and dancing (he is not very good at it yet, but he is trying :))
Baptiste Dupont
Intern
Baptiste is a Bioengineering student at the University of Technology of Compiègne. Passionate about immunology, he is currently undertaking an internship at the Greiff Lab to deepen his understanding of both experimental and computational approaches in this field. In his free time, Baptiste is eager to make the most of his stay in Norway, always ready for an outdoor adventure, a board game night, or a bouldering session!
Jessica Garcia
Intern
Jessica is a Genomic Sciences student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is interested in the immune system and drug discovery. She is currently an intern at the Greiff lab where she is studying antibody epistasis. In her free time she enjoys cooking, and being outdoors. She is a sunny person, so we will test her survival in the Norwegian winter.
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