Professor Dr. Jan Baumbach

Biography

Jan Baumbach is a leading expert in Computational Systems Biology, currently heading a lab at the University of Hamburg since January 2021. He also leads a part-time Computational BioMedicine group at the University of Southern Denmark, a role he has held since October 2012. His previous positions include chairing the Experimental Bioinformatics research group at the Technical University of Munich and serving as a junior research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the Algorithms Group at the University of California at Berkeley under the mentorship of Richard Karp. Jan received his doctoral degree from Bielefeld University, where he was part of the Genome Informatics group led by Jens Stoye, focusing on algorithms, statistics, and systems biology in collaboration with Sven Rahmann. His academic journey includes time spent at the University of California at San Francisco, working in the lab of Tom Ferrin, and at Rothamsted Research with Chris Rawlings.

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