Fabian J Theis

Full Professor, Technical University Munich

Joined

July 2019

Names

Fabian J Theis (Preferred)

Fabian J. Theis

Fabian Theis

Emails

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****@helmholtz-muenchen.de (Confirmed)

****@helmholtz-munich.de (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Full Professor

Technical University Munich (tum.de)

2013 – Present

PhD student

Universität Regensburg (uni-regensburg.de)

2000 – 2003

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

computational biology

Present

Publications

A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition
Marcel Binz, Elif Akata, Matthias Bethge, Franziska Brändle, Julian Coda-Forno, Peter Dayan, Can Demircan, Maria K Eckstein, Noémi Éltető, Thomas L. Griffiths, Susanne Haridi, Akshay K Jagadish, Li Ji-An, Alex Kipnis, Sreejan Kumar, Tobias Ludwig, Marvin Mathony, Marcelo G Mattar, Alireza Modirshanechi, Surabhi S Nath et al. (18 additional authors not shown)
- Nature
- Readers: Everyone
Defining and benchmarking open problems in single-cell analysis
Malte D Luecken, Scott Gigante, Daniel Dimitrov, Yvan Saeys, Fabian J Theis, Smita Krishnaswamy
- Nature Biotechnology
- Readers: Everyone
Generative Modeling of Spatial Transcriptomics via Gaussian Mixture Flow Matching
Lisa Schunke, Soroor Hediyeh-zadeh, Sergio Marco Salas, Ali Oğuz Can, Fabian J Theis
- Gen² 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Structured and interpretable patient embeddings from Single-Cell Foundation Models
Gonçalo Rei Pinto, Su Han Cho, Selman Yasin Özleyen, Eva Fast, Soroor Hediyeh-zadeh, Jie Quan, Fabian J Theis
- Gen² 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Integration of single-cell transcriptomes and chromatin landscapes reveals regulatory programs driving pharyngeal organ development
Margaret E. Magaletta, Macrina Maria Lobo, Eric Kernfeld, Hananeh Aliee, Jack D. Huey, Teagan J. Parsons, Fabian J Theis, Rene Maehr
- Nature Communications
- Readers: Everyone
Spatial Autocorrelation Predicts Cross-Modal Learnability: A Systematic Benchmark of Metabolite Prediction from Gene Expression
Maiia Shulman, Anastasia Litinetskaya, Eirini Giannakoulia, Fabian J Theis
- ICLR 2026 Workshop LMRL Poster
- Readers: Everyone
CP-BG-1M: A Controlled Multi-View Benchmark for Density and Background Shortcuts in Morphology Profiling
Tim Treis, Nikita Moshkov, Ghaith Mqawass, Fabian J Theis
- MLGenX 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
scJEPA: Dual-Space Self-Supervised Learning for Single-Cell Representations
Yuyao Zhai, Weixu Wang, Till Richter, Fabian J Theis
- ICLR 2026 Workshop LMRL Submission
- Readers: Everyone
PerturBERT: Learning Gene Co-Variation Embeddings from Perturbation Signatures
Artur Szałata, Russell Littman, Zoe Piran, Fabian J Theis, David Richmond, Jan-Christian Huetter, Alexander P Wu
- MLGenX 2026 Tinypapertrack
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond single-axis designs: multi-objective optimization for complex perturbation atlases
Zihe Zheng, Soroor Hediyeh-zadeh, Jenni Liu, Fabian J Theis
- MLGenX 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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