Prof. Dr. Holger Fröhlich

Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing

Scientific CV:

Prof. Dr. Holger Fröhlich holds a degree in computer science (focus: artificial intelligence) and a doctorate in computer science. After working as a postdoc at the German Cancer Research Centre and as a senior scientist at Cellzome AG (now a Glaxo-Smith-Kline company), he was appointed to an associate professorship at the University of Bonn in 2010. In 2015, he became Director of an AI and Data Science research team within the global biopharmaceutical company UCB. Since 12/2019, HF has been head of the AI & Data Science group and deputy head of the Bioinformatics department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) in Sankt Augustin. He also teaches as an honorary professor in the Master's programmes in Life Science Informatics and Computer Science at the University of Bonn.

Research focus:

Holger Fröhlich's focus is on the development of data science and AI methods for applications in precision medicine, early drug discovery and systems medicine. To this end, Holger Fröhlich has used and developed a wide range of different approaches over the past 20 years. He has developed several AI methods for modelling longitudinal patient data, integrating different data modalities and combining knowledge with data-driven approaches. He is author and co-author of more than 130 publications (h-index 38) and has worked in several national and international consortia, such as IDENTIREST (BMBF), AETIONOMY (IMI), RADAR-AD (IMI), The Virtual Brain Cloud (H2020) NFDI4Health (DFG) and DIGIPD (ERA Per Med).