Community

Last name	First name	E-Mail	City
Ai	Feiling	feiling.ai@helmholtz-munich.de	Munich
Allani	Marwa	marwa.allani@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de	Warsaw
Anselm	Dorothea	dorothea@anselm.name	Dachau
Bakhshiyeva	Sara	sara.bakhshiyeva@helmholtz-munich.de	Munich
Bierenstiel	Anja	Anja.Bierenstiel@med.uni-tuebingen.de	Tübingen
Carpenter	David	david.r.carpenter@gmail.com	Berlin
Draeger	Sina	sina.draeger@helmholtz-munich.de	Munich
Duraj	Megan	megiduraj19@gmail.com	Munich
Gnimatin	Jean-Pierre	jeanpierre.gnimatinpro@gmail.com	Freiburg im Breisgau
Gujaran	Sheetal Rajendra	sheetal.gujaran@mailbox.tu-dresden.de	Dresden
Heinicke	Jonas	jonas.heinicke@helmholtz-hzi.de	Braunschweig
Hernansanz Biel	Jorge	jorge.hernansanz@live.com	Düsseldorf
Hosseini	Naeimeh	naeimeh.hosseini@helmholtz-munich.de	Munich
Jalking	Lea	lea.jalking@regionh.dk	Copenhagen
Jamnik	Gaja	gaja.jamnik@gmail.com	Munich
Khalid	Saad bin	saad.khalid1987@gmail.com	Berlin
Klinker	Laura Yvonne	klinker.laura@diabetes-zentrum.de	Wuerzburg
Krawczak	Jacqueline	Jacqueline.Kr@web.de	Munich
Manglani	Heena	heena.manglani@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de	Berlin
Merklein	Sarah Alina	merklein@uni-bonn.de	Bonn
Moldovan	Marius	marius.moldovan@tum.de	Munich
Nambiar	Vaishnav	Vaishnav.Nambiar@hhu.de	Düsseldorf
Özsarı	Görkem	goezsari@smail.uni-koeln.de	Köln
Pandit	Kanak	kanakpandit17@gmail.com	Stuttgart
Papadopoulou	Theodora	theodora.papadopoulou@ulb.be	Brussels
Rietz	Marlene	marlene.rietz@rsyd.dk	Copenhagen
Schoder	Bianca	bianca.schoder@icloud.com	Wien
Schonvogel	Talea	talea.schonvogel@gmail.com	Osnabrück
Shiferaw	Kirubel Biruk	s-kishif@uni-greifswald.de	Greifswald
Siikavirta	Ekaterina	ekaterina.va@outlook.com	Helsinki
Simsek	Yagmur	yagmur.simsek.98@gmail.com	Berlin
Singh	Amandeep	amandeep.singh@dife.de	Potsdam
Soleimani	Zeinab	Zeinab.Soleimani@hpi.de	Potsdam
von Zezschwitz	Jasmin Dorothée	vonzezjd@gmail.com	Copenhagen
Xia	Mona	zx1320@ic.ac.uk	London
Yildirim	Zehra Nur	zehranur.yildirim@outlook.com	Potsdam
Zinn	Maximilian	maximilian.zinn@ddz.de	Essen

	Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Martin Hrabě de Angelis is a leading geneticist specializing in genetics, diabetes, and systematic phenotyping. He earned his PhD in biology from Philipps University Marburg and completed postdoctoral research at The Jackson Laboratory (USA) on Delta/Notch signaling and mouse development. Since 2003, he has chaired Experimental Genetics at TUM and directs the Institute of Experimental Genetics at Helmholtz Munich, where he founded the German Mouse Clinic—the world’s first comprehensive mouse phenotyping center. His research has advanced understanding of the genetic and epigenetic basis of obesity and diabetes. Prof. Hrabě de Angelis is acting CEO of Helmholtz Munich, co-founder and board member of the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), and an elected member of the Leopoldina. He actively serves on committees such as the M1 Munich Medicine Alliance, the Coordination Group of Health Research Data Infrastructures (GFDI), and the Health Research Forum of the BMFTR advocating for better health data infrastructures in Germany. His work has been cited over 52,000 times, reflecting his global impact in translational biomedical research.
	Prof. Reiner Jumpertz-von Schwartzenberg is a clinician-scientist specializing in clinical metabolism, obesity, diabetes, and gut microbiome research. He studied medicine in Bochum and Leipzig, earned his doctorate in 2012, and trained at Charité Berlin, becoming a board-certified internist, endocrinologist, and diabetologist. He gained international experience as a postdoctoral fellow at the NIH and UCSF, focusing on human metabolism, insulin resistance, and translational microbiome research. Since 2022, he holds the W3 Professorship for Clinical Metabolism and Obesity Research at the University of Tübingen in conjunction with Helmholtz Munich. He heads the Clinical Study Center for Diabetology and serves as senior physician at University Hospital Tübingen, leading multicenter studies on metabolic testing, imaging, and biomarkers. Additionally, he directs a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group and a Junior Research Group in the CMFI Excellence Cluster, investigating microbial metabolites in diabetes. Prof. Jumpertz-von Schwartzenberg is an active member of national and international professional societies, including the German Diabetes Society, German Obesity Society, EASD, and ADA.
	Dr. Sebastian Lobentanzer is a biomedical researcher and research software engineer with expertise in systems pharmacology and computational biology. He earned his PhD in pharmacology and toxicology and focuses on uncovering causal relationships in molecular biology. From 2021 to 2025, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Julio Saez-Rodriguez’s lab at Heidelberg University Hospital and, since 2024, collaborates with the Open Targets group at EMBL-EBI. In 2025, he became Principal Investigator at Helmholtz Munich and leads the Computational Biology Unit at the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), driving Accessible Biomedical AI Research (slolab.ai). Sebastian bridges biomedical science and information technology, advocating open science and reproducibility. He leads the development of BioCypher, an open-source ecosystem for automating biomedical knowledge management (biocypher.org), and integrates large language models into biomedical workflows to enhance AI-readiness in life sciences.
	Dr. Lars Oest leads the Data Management team at the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), ensuring research data infrastructures and services comply with FAIR principles. He brings extensive expertise in data science and engineering from previous roles as Head of AI Analytics at accantec group and Senior Consultant at BIVAL GmbH, where he managed projects in data pipelines, warehouses, and analytics. Dr. Oest earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from TU Hamburg, focusing on image and parallel processing for process control, and has delivered over 100 data analytics workshops for academic and industrial audiences. He is deeply involved in national research infrastructures (DZG, NUM/MII) and regulatory frameworks (GDNG, EHDS), making him a key expert in bridging data management and research compliance.
	Dr. Steffen Schneider is an award-winning researcher in artificial intelligence and neuroscience, named Early Career Scientist of the Year 2024 by Academics for his scientific achievements and commitment to educational equity. He leads the Dynamical Inference Lab, developing machine learning algorithms to model dynamic biological processes and advance medical research. During his PhD within the European AI network ELLIS, he created the CEBRA algorithm for neural data analysis at EPFL and the University of Tübingen. Beyond research, he promotes AI education through his initiative KI macht Schule, offering courses, training, and open-access materials to thousands of students and teachers. His contributions have earned multiple honors, including the Wolfgang Heilmann Prize.

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