Key Affiliations
1. Member, German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
2. Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2022, Cross-Field)
3.Designated: Executive Dean, Intelligent Medicine Institute, Fudan University (effective April 2025)
4. Founding Director, Digital Health Center, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)
Academic Leadership
1. World-renowned computational biologist and scientific strategist. Formerly led key research units at Germany’s premier institutions (German Cancer Research Center/DKFZ, Heidelberg University). Pioneered and directed major national platforms:
2. BIOQUANT Center for Quantitative Biology, Heidelberg University (250+ scientists)
3. HiGHmed Medical Informatics Consortium (14 German university hospitals)
4. HEALTH-X dataloft: Germany’s GAIA-X-based health data cloud infrastructure
Scientific Breakthroughs
1. Visionary leader in health data science and AI-driven medicine. Seminal contributions include:
2. First global human pancreatic cell atlas & SARS-CoV-2 infection mechanism atlas (>1,200 citations)
3. Core computing center for ICGC’s Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG)
4. Cutting-edge AI research: disease risk prediction and clinical large language model evaluation
Academic Impact
1. 700+ peer-reviewed publications (330 in last decade), >86,000 citations, h-index 120
2. 30+ groundbreaking papers in Cell, Nature, Nature Medicine, etc.
3. Recipient of German BioFuture Award; frequent speaker at Harvard, Oxford, and top global forums
Industry Translation
1. CEO, European Health Data Alliance
2. Developer of globally adopted bioinformatics tools (e.g., R packages >2 million downloads)
Mission at Fudan
Upon appointment, will leverage international leadership and intelligent medicine expertise to propel the Institute into a global innovation hub.
