Prof. Max Pfeffer
Head of the Professorship Bioanalytics and Data Science
location:

University of Potsdam
Am Mühlenberg 9
Haus 62 (H-Lab)
14476 Potsdam – Golm

Fraunhofer IZI-BB
Am Mühlenberg 13
14476 Potsdam – Golm

Professional Experience

  • Since April 2026: Joint Professor, University of Potsdam and Fraunhofer IZI-BB
  • April 2023 – March 2026: Lecturer, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • May 2022 – April 2023: Research Advisor, SimulaMet, Oslo, Norway
  • April 2022 – March 2023: Adjunct Professor, Technische Universität Chemnitz
  • January 2021 – March 2022: DFG Research Associate, Technische Universität Chemnitz
  • July 2020 – December 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher with Markus Bachmayr, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • April 2020 – September 2020: Adjunct Professor, University of Leipzig
  • October 2017 – June 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher with André Uschmajew, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
  • February 2014 – October 2017: PhD Student with Reinhold Schneider, TU Berlin

University Education

  • March 2018: PhD Mathematik TU Berlin
  • January 2014: M.Sc. Mathematik TU Berlin
  • October 2011: B.Sc. Mathematik TU Berlin
  • June 2007: Abitur Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium Berlin

Research Focus and Interests

  • Unsupervised Learning & Explainable AI
  • Dimensionality Reduction & Feature Extraction
  • Modeling & Optimization
  • Applications in Biomedicine
  • Applications in Quantum Chemistry

Cooperations

  • TU Chemnitz – Martin Stoll
  • SimulaMet, Oslo – Evrim Acar Ataman
  • NTNU Trondheim – Ronny Bergmann
  • NTNU Trondheim – Alexander Schmeding
  • Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz – Markus Bachmayr
  • Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova – Ulrich Pfeffer
  • SFSU San Francisco – Serkan Hoşten
  • Chanakya University, Bangalore – Hariprasad Manjunath

Photo: © Fraunhofer IZI-BB

Joint faculty
The University of Potsdam, the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane and the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg