Greater Munich Metropolitan Area
I build bridges between AI, biology & medicine. As Director of the Department of Computational Health at Helmholtz Munich, I lead one of Europe’s largest centers for AI in health, bringing together computational scientists, biologists, and clinicians to understand and predict health and disease across scales. I am also Professor of Mathematical Modelling of Biological Systems at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Associated Faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. My team develops AI tools for single cell genomics, increasingly aiming to build foundational models and digital twins of human cells and ultimately multi-scale biology - what we call the Virtual Human. We’ve created open-source tools such as scanpy, scVelo, CellRank, Squidpy, scGen, CellFlow, MOSCOT, and NicheFormer, and collaborate widely across academia, pharma, and biotech to translate these advances into impact. I’m particularly interested in perturbation modeling, and how AI can reshape discovery and medicine. I post about AI in biomedicine, computational modeling, digital medicine, and the future of data-driven biomedical research. → Follow for updates on our work, new ideas, and opportunities to collaborate.
AI-based drug development project
Head of the Helmholtz Munich Computational Health Center
Director, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich
Junior group leader ‘Computational Modeling in Biology' (CMB), at Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Co-chair of the AI council of the Bavarian Ministry for Science and Art