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Researcher
Dr. Karin Holst
Karin leads the discovery programme at Apex — drug discovery, antibody developability, materials screening, autonomous-lab closed loops. Her work brings the model and the wet lab into the same loop. Before Apex, she led discovery platform work at a large biotech.
Recent
Recent papers and notes.
A slice of what Karin has been writing. External papers link to the research log; internal notes link where we can.
- 01Closed-loop active learning in wet labs (Apex, 2026)
- 02The case for sovereign foundation models (Holst & Mercier, 2026)
- 03Materials active learning under reagent constraints (Apex internal, 2025)
The open problem
“What is the right exploration policy when each step costs a plate?”
Interests
- · Active learning under expensive labels
- · Closed-loop biology
- · Materials screening across the property surface
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