Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop 2021

Fabian is the director of the Institute of Computational Biology at the Helmholtz Center Munich and scientific director of the Helmholtz Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Unit (HelmholtzAI) which was launched in 2019. He is a full professor at the Technical University of Munich, holding the chair'Mathematical Modelling of Biological Systems', associate faculty at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute as well as adjunct faculty at the Northwestern University. Fabian holds a Master's degree in Mathematics and Physics and Ph.D. Degrees in Physics and Computer Science. He worked as visiting researcher at the Department of Architecture and Computer Technology (University of Granada, Spain), at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Wako, Japan), at FAMU-FSU (Florida State University, USA), and TUAT's Laboratory for Signal and Image Processing (Tokyo, Japan), and headed the'signal processing & information theory' group at the Institute of Biophysics (Regensburg, Germany). In 2006, he started working as a Bernstein fellow leading a junior research group at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, located at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation at Göttingen.