Jan Baumbach has been chairing the Computational Systems Biology lab at the University of Hamburg since January 2021. In a part-time capacity, he also leads the Computational BioMedicine group at the University of Southern Denmark (since October 2012). He was previously chair of Experimental Bioinformatics at the Technical University of Munich, Junior Research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley in the Algorithms Group of Richard Karp. In 2008, he received a doctoral degree from Bielefeld University where he worked in the Genome Informatics group of Jens Stoye and the Algorithms and Statistics for Systems Biology group of Sven Rahmann. During his studies, he spent some time at the University of California at San Francisco in the lab of Tom Ferrin and at Rothamsted Research in the lab of Chris Rawlings.
