Sebastian Lobentanzer

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About

I am a pharmacologist turned research software engineer, and I am particularly interested in disentangling causal relationships in molecular biology with the help of modern artificial intelligence approaches. I pursue this goal as a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Center Munich since 2025, and in affiliation with the Open Targets group at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) since 2024. I also serve as the head of computational biology at the German Center for Diabetes Research.

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Publications

In the following, you can find a list of highlighted publications with short summaries. For all publications, please see my Google Scholar profile.

paper: Kuehl M, Schaub DP, Carli F, Heumos L, Hellmig M, Fernández-Zapata C, Kaiser N, Schaul J, Kulaga A, Usanov N, Scverse Community, Krebs CF, Panzer U, Bonn S, Lobentanzer S^§, Saez-Rodriguez J^§, Puelles VG^§ (2025) BioContextAI is a community hub for agentic biomedical systems Nature Biotechnology 43, 1755–1757. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02900-9. (^§: co-senior authors)

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Teaching

I have been teaching a variety of courses since the beginning of my PhD in 2015, usually single-topic courses and short series between 2 and 8 hours, in several areas of the life sciences and computer science.

Computer Science

Data integration and LLMs in the Machine Learning and AI Summer School (VIB, Belgium, 2025)
EMBL-EBI webinar on LLM technologies and future directions (2025, recording available)
Machine and deep learning track, Ukrainian Biological Data Science Summer School 2024 (Uzhhorod, Ukraine).