Andre Altmann

Andre received a diploma (MS degree) in Computer Science in 2005 from the RWTH Aachen, Germany, with a focus on pattern recognition and human language technology ("Siri"-like stuff). He became interested in applying these methods to biological questions and pursued a PhD in Computational Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrucken, Germany. His graduate work focused on computational optimization of anti-HIV treatments using methods from statistical learning. After receiving his PhD in 2010, he continued with a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, where he worked on next-generation-sequencing (NGS). He has a strong research interest in using genetics and methods from statistical learning to analyze functional imaging data, especially resting-state fMRI, to improve the diagnosis and understanding of psychiatric diseases.