Curriculum Vitae

Max Planck Director
Department Machine Learning and Systems Biology
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Martinsried near Munich (from February 1, 2023)

Full Professor of Data Mining
Department Biosystems Science and Engineering
ETH Zürich

Associate Professor of Data Mining
Department Biosystems Science and Engineering
ETH Zürich

Associate Professor (W2) of Data Mining in the Life Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

W2 Research Group Leader (tenured since 2010)
Machine Learning and Computational Biology Research Group
Max Planck Institutes Tübingen, Directors D. Weigel and B. Schölkopf

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Machine Learning Group, Chairholder: Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani
University of Cambridge

PhD Student & Research Assistant
Data Mining & Database Unit, Chairholder: Prof. Hans-Peter Kriegel
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Academic Visitor (for writing master thesis in Computer Science)
Machine Learning Group, Prof. Alex Smola, Prof. SVN Vishwanathan
NICTA Canberra, Australia

Student of Biology (M.Sc. in 2003)
Department of Zoology
University of Oxford

Student of Computer Science (Diplom in 2004)
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science & Statistics
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
(on leave for studying in Oxford during academic year 2002/03)

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) Remarkable Output award (“Must-read paper of 2020”) as joint last author of Höllerer et al., Nature Communications 11 , Article number: 3551 (2020)

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) Graduate Paper Award as supervisor and co-author of PhD student & co-awardee Thomas Gumbsch for Hyland et al, Nature Medicine, volume 26, pages 364–373 (2020)

ELLIS Fellow and ELLIS Faculty Member

Scientific Coordinator of a Marie Curie Innovative Training Network on  Machine Learning Frontiers in Precision Medicine (2019-2022, 8 countries, 14 labs, 14 PhD students, mlfpm.eu)

One of " 25 individuals who have the potential to shape the next 25 years " according to Focus Magazine (Edition of January 13, 2018)

Scientific Coordinator of the SPHN-PHRT Driver Project "Personalized Swiss Sepsis Study" (jointly with Dr. Adrian Egli (USB), 5.3 million CHF funding, 22 partner labs, 4 years)

President of the Community of Special Interest for Machine Learning in Computational and Systems Biology in the International Society for Computational Biology, 2017-2020

Golden Owl Award for Best Teaching in the Department Biosystems, ETH Zürich

One of the " Top 40 under 40 in Science and Society " in Germany according to Business Journal Capital

Starting Grant Awardee (ERC backup scheme of the Swiss National Science Foundation, 1.42 million CHF, 5 years, started May 1st, 2015)

Elected Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Annual Meeting for  Machine Learning in Systems Biology (MLSB), 2015-2018

One of the " Top 40 under 40 in State & Society " from Germany (including 12 scientists) according to Business Journal Capital

One of the " Top 40 under 40 in Science " from Germany according to Business Journal Capital

Alfried-Krupp-Förderpreis für junge Hochschullehrer (Annual Krupp award of 1 million EUR for one professor in Germany of age less than 38)

Scientific Coordinator of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network on  Machine Learning in Personalized Medicine (2013-2016, 8 countries, 12 labs, 14 PhD students, mlpm.eu)

NIPS Outstanding Student Paper Award as supervisor and co-author of PhD student & awardee Nino Shervashidze (out of 1105 submissions)

Heinz-Schwärtzel-Dissertation-Award for Foundations of Computer Science (Best PhD thesis award in Computer Science at TUM, LMU and UniBw München)

Scholar of the German Academic Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) as PhD student

Scholar of the German Academic Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) as undergraduate student

Scholar of the Bavarian Foundation for the Gifted (BayBFG)  (250 students out of 30,000 students per year in Bavaria)

Scholar of the Stiftung Maximilianeum in Munich  (5-10 students out of 30,000 students per year in Bavaria)

Ph.D. in Computer Science (obtained on July 5, 2007) , summa cum laude
Data Mining & Database Unit, Chairholder: Prof. Hans-Peter Kriegel
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Diplom (M.Sc. equivalent) in Computer Science
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science & Statistics
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

M.Sc. in Biology
Department of Zoology
University of Oxford

Co-applicant in SNSF Project “Derivation of pediatric sepsis phenotypes using machine learning applied to clinical, functional and genomic data from the swiss pediatric sepsis study” (own budget: 330.000 CHF, 4 years)

Participant in National Centre of Competence in Research “AntiResist” (own budget: 200.000 CHF, 4 years)

Scientific Coordinator of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (in total: 14 PhD students at 14 labs in 8 countries, network budget: 3.64 million EUR, own budget: 0.3 million EUR, 4 years)

Scientific Coordinator of the SPHN-PHRT Driver Project "Personalized Swiss Sepsis Study" (jointly with Dr. Adrian Egli (USB), 22 partner labs, total budget: 5.3 million CHF funding, own budget: 1.08 million CHF, 4 years)

Partner node in Horizon2020 research network on MRI classification (own budget: 520.000 CHF, 4 years)

Starting Grant for Significant Pattern Mining (ERC backup scheme of the Swiss National Science Foundation, 1.42 million CHF, 5 years)

Alfried Krupp Award for Young Professors (1 million EUR, 5 years)

Scientific Coordinator of a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (in total: 14 PhD students at 12 labs in 8 countries, network budget: 3.75 million EUR, own budget: 0.75 million EUR, 4 years)

Co-founder & scientific mentor of the Tübingen-based bioinformatics service company Computomics (computomics.com); supported by the High-Tech Venture Capital Funds of the German Federal Government since 2015.

Research grant from DFG for Kernels on Large, Labeled Graphs (German Research Council, 3 years approx. 240.000 EUR)