Team

Scientists

 

Dr. Marc Jacobs

I'm working for Fraunhofer for more then 15 years as a Computer Scientist in the field of algorithm design and professional software development. My main research interests are information extraction and retrieval in the field of chemistry and pharmacology.


Projects:
Human Brain Pharmacome, COPERIMOplus


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Mehmet Can Ay

I joined Fraunhofer SCAI in 2023 during my studies in Life Science Informatics master's program at the University of Bonn as a research assistant. After successfully completing my master's thesis, I joined Software and Scientific Computing group as a scientist. My current research focuses on the utilization of language models to develop intelligent data stewardship tools aimed at the automatization of semantic harmonization.
 

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Christian Ebeling

After several years in the wet lab as molecular biologist I started my career in bioinformatics 2001 as research assistant and main developer of the BRENDA enzyme database at the University of Cologne. Since 2008 I'm working at the Fraunhofer SCAI in the Department of Bioinformatics. My focus is on biomedical knowledge bases and the development of graph mining algorithms.

 

Projects: PHAGO, Inflammation and AD


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Jürgen Klein

Students

 

Astha Anand

I am a Life Science Informatics student at University of Bonn. I joined Fraunhofer SCAI as a Research Assistant in May 2023. I have been working on a project dedicated to constructing a robust knowledge graph on plant diseases and pesticides. The project involves meticulous research for data extraction, the definition of RDF triples, and the importation of Turtle files into Neo4j database for seamless graph visualization and querying.

 

Negin Babaiha

I am a Computer Scientist and joined Fraunhofer SCAI as a PhD researcher in 2022. My main research is focused around automating the extension, expansion, and updating of biomedical knowledge graphs using Machine Learning/Text-Mining approaches, applied to the field of drug repurposing and drug discovery.
 

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Anoop Johny

I am a Student at Bonn University studying Life Science Informatics. I joined Fraunhofer SCAI in December 2022 to conduct my Master's Thesis. My research focuses on the implementation of mapping techniques using Large Language Models.