Christoph Feinauer
Staff Research Scientist & Acting Director at GenBio AI
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolChristoph Feinauer is a Staff Research Scientist and Acting Director based in Paris with 12 years of experience building foundation models for protein design. He transitioned from industry research at Isomorphic Labs to leading applied AI efforts at GenBio AI, bringing deep domain expertise in generative models and interpretable machine learning. His academic background — PhD-level training in machine learning, physics, and computational biology — underpins earlier work predicting pathogenicity and inferring protein contacts from statistical models. Christoph has blended research and teaching as an assistant professor, mentoring students in algorithms, neural networks, and C programming while publishing methods that bridge theory and practice. He combines hands‑on model development (including unsupervised techniques and Bayesian modelling of large biological datasets) with leadership in translating protein design research toward real-world applications. Colleagues describe him as a scientist who pairs rigorous mathematical thinking with an eye for deployable, interpretable ML solutions.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Phys. Biophysics, Dipl. Phys. Biophysics at Heidelberg UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Machine Learning Physics Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Machine Learning Physics Computational Biology at Politecnico di TorinoUndergraduate Physics, Undergraduate Physics at Technical University of MunichBiology General, Biology General at Goethe University FrankfurtBiophysics, Biophysics at University of Rome Tor Vergata
German, English, Italian, French, Latin
Github Skills (61)
speech-to-text10
speaker-verification10
location10
kaldi10
speech10
cuda10
shell10
protein-sequences9
asr9
speech-recognition9
proteins8
pdb-files8
plugin8
protein-design8
parse8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
christophfeinauer/PairwiseDistillations
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:37 commits, 6 pushes in 7 months
christophfeinauer/PdbTool.jl
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
pdbTool: An object-oriented Julia tool to parse PDB files and work with them
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 42 pushes in 6 years 1 month
pdbpdb-filesjuliaobject-orientedparse
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