Top German medical scientists Roland Eils and Irina Lehmann have joined Fudan University in Shanghai as full-time faculty members, according to the Chinese institution’s website.
Eils earned his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Heidelberg in 1995, and was elected as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
He is an internationally renowned computational biologist and scientific strategist who has led major German research institutions – including the German Cancer Research Centre and the University of Heidelberg – in establishing national platforms.
Previously, he served as director of the health data science department at Heidelberg University Hospital and was a full-time professor and founding director of the Centre of Digital Health at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Charité University of Medicine.
