Director of the institute
Jan Baumbach
Professor, Dr. rer. nat.
Institute for Computational Systems Biology
University of Hamburg
Notkestrasse 9
22607 Hamburg
Germany
Tel: +49-40-42838-7640
E-mail: jan.baumbach[a.t_))uni-hamburg.de
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0282-0462
scholar.google: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=PWV8xOoAAAAJ

Short bio
Research
Jan Baumbach studied computer science at Bielefeld University in Germany. His research career started at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden (UK) where he worked on computational methods for the integration of molecular biology data. He returned to the Center for Biotechnology in Bielefeld for his PhD studies where he developed CoryneRegNet. Afterwards, at the University of California at Berkeley, he worked in the Algorithms group of Richard Karp on Transitivity Clustering, a novel clustering framework for large-scale biomedical data sets. From March 2010, Jan was head of the Computational Systems Biology group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany. In October 2012, he moved to the University of Southern Denmark as head of the Computational BioMedicine group. His research concentrated on systems and network biomedicine. He was study program coordinator of the Computational BioMedicine program from 2015 to 2017. In January 2018 he moved to the Technical University of Munich as chair of the Experimental Bioinformatics (ExBio), where he developed computational methods for systems medicine and novel federated AI approaches ensuring privacy by design. In January 2021, the lab relocated to the University of Hamburg where Jan Baumbach became director of the Institute for Computational Systems Biology (Cosy.Bio).
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Systems Medicine
Network Medicine
Biomarker Discovery & Validation
Precision Medicine
Computational Biotechnology
Big Data Analytics
Machine Learning
Combinatorial Optimization
Privacy by Design
Education & work experience
Professor and Director of the Institute for Computational Systems Biology
from 2021
University of Hamburg, Germany
Professor and Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics
2018 - 2020
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Director of Information Technology Weihenstephan
2018 - 2020
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Professor
2017 - present (part time since 2018)
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Associate Professor
2012 - 2017
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Independent Research Group Leader
2010 - 2012
Max Planck Institute for Informatics & Saarland University, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow
2008 - 2010
Algorithms Group of Richard Karp, University of California at Berkeley, USA
PhD Student
2005 - 2008
Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Germany & University of California at San Francisco, USA
Undergraduate Studies
2000 - 2005
Bielefeld University, Germany & Rothamsted Research, UK