Biography

Max von Kleist received his bioinformatics degree from Freie Universität Berlin in 2006. He completed his PhD thesis in applied mathematics 2010 at the Hamilton Institute/National University Ireland. After this he moved back to Berlin to start a post-Doc in the group of Christof Schütte at FU-Berlin.

From 2011-9, he headed a junior research group focussing on the systems pharmacology of antiretrovirals. In 2019, he moved to the Robert-Koch Institute (Germany’s natl’ public health institute), where he became head of bioinformatics in 2020, at the dawn of the COVID pandemic. In 2022, he was appointed full university professor and Math+ professor.

To date he has authored ~100 publications in applied mathematics, bioinformatics, mathematical epidemiology and systems pharmacology of infectious disease. He is steering board member of the International Max Planck Research School on Biology & Computation, as well as the DFG-excellence center MATH+.