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Leipzig University

Dr. Jan Ewald

Dr. Jan Ewald is a bioinformatician and AI researcher who leads the Life Science group at ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig at Leipzig University. A native of Leipzig, he studied bioinformatics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena from 2009 to 2014 and went on to earn his doctorate there in systems biology, where he worked within the “FungiNet” research cluster (Jena and Würzburg) on mathematical models and machine learning to study pathogenic fungi. He joined ScaDS.AI and Leipzig University in 2021, where he combines bioinformatics and AI methods in research projects focused on areas including cancer research and biotechnology. At ScaDS.AI he jointly coordinates the application area Life-Science & Medicine and organized the 6th Central German Bioinformatics Meeting in 2025.

Research Interests

  • Multi-omics data integration and biomarker identification
  • Multi-modal representation learning with deep learning and agentic systems
  • Biotechnology and bio-process optimization
  • Leveraging LLMs and agents for biomedical knowledge incorporation in bioinformatics
  • Cancer research, infection biology and cell therapy optimization

Publications: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=9rmGA5cAAAAJ

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9415-2317

Projects

Team, supervision, teaching

Researcher:

Kristina Müller (SaxoCell NK-Alliance and MSC-Ready)

Student assistants:

  • Luca Thale-Bombien, jointly supervised with Aaron Klein, ELLIS Institute Tübingen
  • Alicia Diem (Developing agentic system for screening of third-party funding opportunities)
  • Susi Schneider (Multi-omics integration in cancer research)
  • Miriam Laube (SaxoCell MSC-Ready)

Current theses supervision:

Alumni and past supervisions:

  • Dusan Prascevic (GRAMMY and MIRACLE)
  • Gergely Pogany (GRAMMY)
  • Maximilian Joas (SaxoCell and AUTOENCODIX)
  • Vincent David Friedrich (SaxoCell)
  • Wassili Dimitriew (PhD student, FSU Jena)
  • Alessandra Francheschi (Visiting PhD student, University of Verona)

Bachelor and Master theses:

Curriculum Vitae

  • 10/2021 – today: Team lead and group leader “Life Science” at ScaDS.AI, Leipzig University; Scientist and project lead within the Transfer unit of ScaDS.AI
  • 07/2018 – 06/2021: PostDoc at FSU Jena in the Department of Bioinformatics
  • 02/2015 – 03/2015: Visiting scientist at UPV/EHU University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
  • 11/2014 – 01/2019: PhD in bioinformatics and systems biology at FSU Jena and LMU Würzburg within the SFB/Transregio “FungiNet”
funded by:
Gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.
Gefördert vom Freistaat Sachsen.