Christoph Lippert

Christoph Lippert (Univ. Prof., Dr. rer. nat., *1980) is Chair of Digital Health & Machine Learning at the joint Digital-Engineering Faculty of Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) and the University of Potsdam.
Christoph Lippert is full professor (W3) for computer science at HPI and the University of Potsdam. He teaches courses In Digital Health, Mathematics, Machine Learning and Statistics in the HPI Master Degree programs and supervises nine PhD projects.
As an expert for digital health with an emphasis on machine learning, Lippert is working on machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms, as well as novel applications in medicine. The focus is on advancing the capabilities to predict personal health risks and supporting the personalized prevention of health issues and diseases.
Lippert studied bioinformatics from 2001–2008 in Munich and went on to earn his doctorate at the Max Planck Institutes for Intelligent Systems and for Developmental Biology in Tübingen in the field of computational biology, with an emphasis on genome-associated studies. In 2012, he accepted a position in Los Angeles at Microsoft Research and subsequently carried out work at Human Longevity, Inc. In 2017, Lippert returned to Germany to head the research group “Statistical Genomics” at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, before joining the HPI in 2018.