The group

Our group is highly interdisciplinary and multi-cultural. It is led by Sonja Aits, and comprises two PhD students, Salma Kazemi Rashed and Rafsan Ahmed, and a variable number of undergraduate students from (bio)medical, science or engineering programs.

The group leader

Sonja has a PhD in biomedicine and worked for >10 years as a wet lab cell biologist, specialized in cancer cell death and lysosomes, before transitioning to computational research. Besides her research activity, Sonja is heavily involved in coordinating various AI-related activities at Lund University and she is also study director of the COMPUTE research school.

The research environment

Our group is situated at the Department of Experimental Medical Science at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University. We are part of several interdisciplinary research environments and communities at Lund University and we are also part of several national and international research networks:

  • AI Lund
  • LU profile area - Natural and Artificial Cognition
  • LU profile area - Nature-based Future Solutions
  • Faculty of Engineering profile area - Pillars of AI and Digitalization
  • Faculty of Engineering profile area - Engineering Health
  • Strategic Research Area EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
  • Strategic Research Area EpiHealth: eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
  • LUCC: Lund University Cancer Centre
  • Pufendorf Institute Advanced Study Group "Generative modelling"
  • COMPUTE
  • AIR Lund
  • Phenotarget
  • Nordic High-Content Screening Network
  • NEUBIAS
  • Nordic Autophagy Network

    • Our collaborators

    Our group work enjoys working with others who share our belief in collaborative science. If you are interested in collaborating, don't hesitate to contact us!

  • Johanna Berg, Skåne University Hospital and Karolinska Institute
  • Kalle Åström, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University
  • Alexandros Sopasakis, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University
  • Marcus Klang, Department of Computer Science, Lund University
  • Darcy Wagner, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University
  • Pierre Nugues, Department of Computer Science, Lund University
  • Peter Berck, Humanities Lab, Lund University
  • Johan Frid, Humanities Lab, Lund University
  • Emily Boyd, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Lund University