Head of the Helmholtz AI Consultant Team (Health) and co-head of the Clinical AI Consultant Team, Helmholtz Munich
Dr. Marie Piraud
"Joining forces of the previous knowledge acquired on underlying biological processes with powerful techniques of artificial intelligence is a very exciting and meaningful avenue to better predictions in Health research.”
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Academic Career and Research Areas
Marie Piraud is the Head of the AI Consultant Team for Health at Helmholtz AI, based at Helmholtz Munich, and co-lead of the Clinical AI Consultant Team at AI for Health. Those team are dedicated to empowering researchers and clinicians with tailored AI solutions, open-source software, and postgraduate training, democratizing AI for the global Health research community. They incorporate ethical and sustainability considerations all along the AI development cycle.
Marie’s academic path began with undergraduate and master’s studies in Fundamental and Quantum Physics at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan and ENS Paris. She completed her PhD in Physics (2009 - 2012) at the Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau, supervised by Nobel Laureate Prof. Alain Aspect and Dr. Laurent Sanchez-Palencia, studying Anderson localization of matter waves. She then held a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship at LMU Munich (2013 - 2016), followed by a postdoc in Computer Science at TU Munich’s CAMP group (2016 - 2018), applying Bayesian inference and deep learning to whole-body imaging for diagnosing plasma cell disorders. From 2018 to 2020, she worked as a Senior Research Engineer in Digital Healthcare at Konica Minolta Laboratory Europe, Munich.
She joined Helmholtz AI at Helmholtz Munich in 2020, building the AI consulting team that now supports projects across cancer research, drug discovery, single-cell biology, neuroscience, and more.
Fields of Work and Expertise
Medical Computer Vision Deep Learning for Health Biomedical Image Analysis
Statistical Inference
Multi-modal Data Integration
Open-Source AI
Sustainable AI
AI Consultancy
Drug Discovery AI
Professional Background
PhD in Physics, Institut d’Optique / Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Palaiseau (supervised by Nobel Laureate Prof. Alain Aspect)
Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, LMU Munich (Theoretical Nanophysics group, Prof. Ulrich Schollwöck)
Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science, TU Munich (CAMP group, Prof. Björn Menze) – AI for plasma cell disorder diagnosis
Senior Research Engineer Digital Healthcare, Konica Minolta Laboratory Europe, Munich
Head of AI Consultant Team (Health), Helmholtz AI at Helmholtz Munich
Co-head of the clinical AI Consultant Team, AI for Health at Helmholtz Munich
Honors and Awards
Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013–2016) – EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, for research on strongly-correlated topological phases of ultracold atoms;
Helmholtz UNLOCK Funding (2025–2026) – Project Lead, UQOB benchmark (uncertainty quantification in organoid detection); one of three funded projects at Helmholtz Munich from the first-ever Helmholtz UNLOCK benchmarking call;
Her Science Career Sponsorship Program 2025–2026 – Selected sponsor in Helmholtz Munich’s internal program for supporting female scientists in leadership.
Falling Walls Science Summit
Marie Piraud, Empowering Helmholtz researchers with AI
From Bedside to Bytes – and back
Helmholtz Clinical AI Consultants
