I am a Ph.D. student in Theoretical Physics at Kiel University, Germany, where I also received a diploma (masters) degree in Physics and an undergraduate degree in Biology. My current research is focused on modeling and understanding how the dynamics and evolution of gene regulatory networks can lead to the complex spatio-temporal patterns of cell differentiation found in morphogenesis of multicellular organisms (a thing commonly called genotype-phenotype mapping). The system I study is based on a discrete description of regulatory interactions at transcription level (a random Boolean network or a random threshold network) and intercellular inductive interactions between neighboring cells, which are placed on a 2D grid. I a later stage, I intend to include higher level morphogenetic processes to this model, e.g. cell division, cell movements and programmed cell death, and to study the multi-level dynamics of this developmental system. Besides modeling developmental pattern formation and morphogenesis, I am also interested in evolution of complex networks in general, and in self-organized criticality.