Mathias Wilhelm

Mathias Wilhelm studied bioinformatics (B.Sc.) and informatics in the natural sciences (M.Sc.) at the University Bielefeld. After an employment at the Harvard Medical School in the Children’s Hospital Boston in the group of Dr. Hanno Steen, he started his PhD in computational proteomics at the TUM. His dissertation was on “An in-memory platform for the exploration and analysis of big data in biology” – now known as ProteomicsDB. In 2017, he became the bioinformatics group leader at the Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics. In 2021, Mathias Wilhelm was appointed to the professorship for Computational Mass Spectrometry at TUM. He is a co-founder of MSAID, was a co-founder of OmicScouts, and is member of the scientific advisory board of Momentum Biotechnologies.

The group for Computational Mass Spectrometry comprises an international research team of informaticians. They investigate how mass spectrometric data can be better understood, made usable for the broad scientific community and how findings from it can be translated into research and clinical practice. To this end, they develop platforms and tools for scientists to evaluate, analyze and interpret their own data in an integrative manner. For this, they uses state-of-the-art methods from computer science, such as in-memory databases and neural networks.