Lara is a bioinformatician with a strong expertise in the analysis of diverse types of next-generation sequencing data. After completing her Master’s degree in Systems Biology at the Heidelberg University, she joined the Division “Chromatin networks” of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg for her doctoral studies. She received her Ph.D. in natural sciences from the University of Heidelberg for her analysis of disease- and drug-induced epigenetic and gene expression changes in blood cancers. This work included the development of a data analysis pipeline for a new sequencing data type. In her postdoc she further specialized in the analysis of single-cell sequencing data