Sebastian Lobentanzer
Group Leader
Applying artificial intelligence to biology, healthcare, medicine, and the research process.
Expertise
- Biomedical AI
- Pharmacology
- Molecular causality
- Software engineering
What I value
- High flexibility
- Rapid responses
- Open, agile iteration
Current work
- Building accessible, robust tools for biomedical research
- Exploring foundational principles and general-purpose LLM agents
- Connecting applied science with usability and epistemic robustness
Raeesa Yousaf
Doctoral Researcher
Developing agentic AI systems for public health information and clinical trials, with a focus on measuring and taxonomizing information distortion in LLM-generated text.
Expertise
- Natural Language Processing
- LLM systems
What I value
- Rigorous evaluation methodology
- Reusable, generalizable frameworks
Current work
- Developing a distortion taxonomy for evaluating LLM-generated health summaries
- Cross-disease clinical trials platform work across German Health Centers (DZGs)
Peyman Vahidi
Doctoral Researcher
Working on the intersection of Protein Language Models and agentic AI, building efficient models and orchestration frameworks.
Expertise
- Protein Language Models
- HPC
What I value
- Practical tools over premature complexity
- Building at the ML–biology interface
Current work
- nanoPLM, a framework for pretraining Protein Language Models
- Building agentic scientific workflows more reliably
Rupshali Dasgupta
Doctoral Researcher
Trustworthy AI for biomedical knowledge discovery
Expertise
- Knowledge graph construction and reasoning
- AI Agents and LLMs
- Federated Learning
What I value
- Collaboration
- Flexibility
- Interdisciplinarity
Current work
- Cardiometabolic knowledge graph construction and reasoning
- Biomedical entity linking and normalization
Andreas Obermeier
Doctoral Researcher
Knowledge management for rAAV-based gene therapy manufacturing
Expertise
- Bioinformatics
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Knowledge graphs
What I value
- Open-mindedness
- Creativity
- Communication
Current work
- Review article on knowledge management in rAAV-based gene therapy manufacturing
- Knowledge framework for the rAAV manufacturing process
Vladislav Samoilov
Engineer
Developing cutting-edge agentic AI applications for the life sciences.
Expertise
- AI and Machine Learning
- Software engineering
- Product development
What I value
- Organization
- Ownership & Initiative
Current work
- Agentic AI for the Virtual Human
- Democratization of Knowledge Management