Jörg Hackermüller

Prof. Dr. Jörg Hackermüller is a computational biologist with expertise in

• Omics data integration
• Toxicology
• Environmental risk assessment
• Non-coding RNA biology

. He serves as Head of the Department of Computational Biology and Chemistry at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) since 2024 and holds a Professorship at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Leipzig University since 2021.

His research focuses on

• Developing AI methods for chemical toxicity prediction
• Multi-omics integration for mechanistic toxicology
• Data standardization in environmental monitoring
• Non-coding RNAs as biomarkers in disease and toxicity

and has produced 15+ recent publications spanning tools like multiGSEA and deepFPlearn+.

He collaborates with teams across

• UFZ
• Leipzig University
• Novartis
• Fraunhofer Institute

and leads projects like InCeTo and SafePol, integrating exposome research with systems biology.