Erik Clarkson

About me

My undergraduate education is in theoretical physics at Lund University. During my degree projects, I have worked on analyzing experimental data within biophysics. 

About my research

Quantitative studies of biological processes are often interdisciplinary in nature. In the analysis of such a study, simulations, modelling and calculations are required. By improving the description of underlying processes, the analysis may be optimized. With these methods, I seek to estimate the binding parameters of T-cell receptors from fluorescence microscopy movies.

There are a number of challenges in this analysis. For instance, it is unknown which of the tracked proteins are bound or free, how random camera noise affects the movies, and which fluorescent dots are to be linked from one frame to the next. To find the most probable solutions to these problems, I do probabilistic calculations in a Bayesian framework.