Christoph Steinbeck
Vice President Digitalisation
Jena, Thuringia, Germany
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Top SchoolChristoph Steinbeck is a professor and digitalisation leader with 15+ years of experience bridging analytical chemistry, cheminformatics and research infrastructure. As Vice President Digitalisation at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and coordinator of NFDI4Chem, he guides national efforts to standardise and open access to chemical research data. He leads the Steinbeck lab and the long-running Chemistry Development Kit project, applying deep learning and algorithm development to improve access to chemical information and computational natural products discovery. His career spans academic leadership roles at EMBL and the Max Planck Institute, European project coordination, and editorial stewardship in cheminformatics. Notably, he combines hands-on open-source project leadership with large-scale infrastructure building—reflecting both pragmatic software development and ambitious scientific data stewardship. Based in Jena but rooted in the Black Forest, he balances international research leadership with a down-to-earth personal life that includes a cat and a chicken.
15 years of coding experience
Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium, NeuwiedPhD, PhD at The University of Bonn
Github Skills (82)
chemistry10
cheminformatics10
java10
development-kit10
bioinformatics10
baduk8
graph7
python6
breakout5
sensor5
arduino-library5
deep-learning5
transformers5
image-recognition5
tensorflow5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
StructureGenerator/StructureGenerator.github.io
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
steinbeck/chickendoor
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:65 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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