Top AI medical scientists Roland Eils and Irina Lehmann leave Germany for China
The married couple joined the university in April, their arrival marking another milestone in China's growing ambitions in
artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine – a field that Eils and Lehmann have helped to pioneer.
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.
He was named one of the most influential researchers globally in 2022, according to Clarivate's list of
'Highly Cited Researchers'
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.
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