Prof. Dr. Thomas Berlage
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Lehrstuhl Informatik 5 Building: E2
Room: 6212
Ahornstraße 55
52074 Aachen
Thomas Berlage is Professor for Life Science Informatics at RWTH Aachen since 2002. He received a diploma in computer science from the University of Bonn in 1988 and the doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Paderborn in 1993.
Since 2002 he is also head of the department on Life Science Informatics (now Digital Health) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT in Sankt Augustin and founding member of the B-IT master program "Life Science Informatics".
- 1988 Diploma in Computer Science, University Bonn
- 1993 Ph.D. in Computer Science, University Paderborn, Title: "Using Command Objects to Implement User Interfaces"
- 2001 Habilitation at TU Berlin
- 2002 Joint Appointment at RWTH Aachen and Institute Director at Fraunhofer FIT
Research Interests
- Managing image-based knowledge (software architecture, data modeling, image analysis, visual data mining, user interface development, enhanced reality)
- Life science informatics (applications in medical diagnosis and therapy support, drug discovery and molecular biology)
Selected Projects
- ExPrimage: automated multi-layer image recognition in oncological pathology (2008)
- Speaker of a project within the DFG Clinical Research Group 217 "Toponomics of Liver Diseases", Düsseldorf (2910-2015)
- Development of a new Live-Cell-Imaging Analysis Platform for Bayer AG (2011)
- Member of the advisory board of the RWTH Aachen University biobank (2013)
- Project LIS4Future, reengineering a highly modular laboratory information system for a small company (2013-2016)
- Coordinator "Life Science & Healthcare" of the Fraunhofer Alliance "Big Data & KI" (since 2014)
- Co-author of the VDI guideline 6320 "Datenmanagement in den Life Sciences" (2017)
- SALUS: Building a digital healthcare platform for ophthalmology "Selbsttonometrie und telemedizinischer Datentransfer für Glaukom-Patienten" (2019-2023)
- AI-Net-Protect: Building a resilient communication infrastructure for healthcare (2020- 2023)
- Coordinator of the expert panel for developing the genomDE concept for the German Ministry of Health within the SRSS program of the EU (2020-2021)
- Member of the executive board in the project "genomDE" for the German Ministry of Health, Speaker of the working group "Informatics" (2021-2024)