Early Career Investigator Groups

With its Early Career Investigator (ECI) program, which includes a tenure option, Helmholtz Munich has established a tool for fast and strategic recruitment of outstanding Early Career Scientists. Attractive 5-year resource packages, intensive grant support and embedding in the vibrant Helmholtz Munich research community enables the Early Career Scientists to develop competitive and visible research profiles in their respective fields and offers them an important opportunity on their career ladder. Within the framework of Helmholtz Munich’s scientific strategy, ECIs are scientifically independent. Training, coaching and mentoring offers support them in their leadership roles.

IDC Diabetes and Cancer

Maria Rohm
Tissue Crosstalk in Cancer Metabolism
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IDM Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases Tübingen

Reiner Jumpertz-von-Schwarzenfeld
Bacterial metabolites in diabetes sub-clusters
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HI-MAG Helmholtz Institute for Metabolic, Obesity and Vascular Research Leipzig

Lucas Massier
Adipose Tissue Microarchitecture and Metabolism
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Alexander Jais
Diet-Induced Metabolic Alterations
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Bilal Sheikh
Vascular Epigenetics
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LHI Lung Health and Immunity

Maja Funk
Ageing & Environmental Stress in Lung Disease
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Markus Dieffenbacher
Experimental Immuno-Oncology
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IFE Functional Epigenetics

Daphne Cabianca
Environment and Nuclear Organization
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STB Structural Biology

Thomas Reis Alderson
Environment and Nuclear Organization
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IBMI Biological & Medical Imaging

Daniel Kotlarz
Artificial Intelligence for Optoacoustics
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ICB Computational Biology

Dominik Jüstel
Artificial Intelligence for Optoacoustics
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ICB Computational Biology

Steffen Schneider
Dynamical Inference
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Dominik Jüstel
Artificial Intelligence for Optoacoustics
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Benjamin Schubert
Schubert Lab - Translational Immunoinformatics
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ITG Translational Genomics

Daniel Kotlarz
Decoding molecular disease mechanisms in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease – A systems biology-driven approach
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AIH AI for Health

Francesco Paolo Casale
Casale Lab -Systems Genetics and Machine Learning
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Bastian Rieck
Rieck Lab
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Helmholtz AI

Shadi Albarqouni
Albarqouni Lab - Federated Learning in Health Care
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Vincent Fortuin
Efficient Learning and Probabilistic Inference
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Niki Kilbertus
Kilbertus Lab - Reliable Machine Learning
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Tingying Peng
Peng Lab - AI for Microscopy and Computational Pathology
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Lara Urban
Urban Lab - Planetary Health
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Perspectives for Early Career Scientists