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Fabian Theis

Helmholtz Munich, Computational Health Center & TU Munich, DE
Biography

Fabian Theis studied Mathematics and Physics and has PhDs in Physics and Computer Science. After different research stays abroad he was 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. In 2007 he became junior group leader at the Helmholtz Center Munich and associate professor at the TechnicalUniversity of Munich.
Fabian Theis is the Director of Helmholtz Munich Computational Health Center and Scientific Director of 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, Hinxton, UK.

Professor Dr. Dr. Fabian Theis received one of the prestigious Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project "DeepCell."

Additionally, Fabian Theis was accepted for membership in the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in July 2022 and was appointed to the Board of Directors of Human Cell Atlas, Inc. and to the Human Cell Atlas Organising Committee.

Furthermore, Fabian Theis has just been awarded the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2023 by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

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