Dirk Reinel

Prof. Dr. Dirk Reinel serves as Professor at Hof University of Applied Sciences within the Faculty of Interdisciplinary and Innovative Sciences since the 2023/2024 winter semester. He leads the B.Sc. program in Innovative Health Care and acts as StartupLab Ambassador for Innovative Health Care, driving healthcare innovation initiatives.

His academic journey includes Computer Science studies at Hof University followed by doctoral research at the University of Bamberg, where he earned his Dr. rer. nat. in 2018 through work on corpus-based lexical resource generation for opinion mining.

Reinel's research bridges Health Informatics and Natural Language Processing, with dual specializations in health data management (particularly migraine epidemiology) and sentiment analysis. His publication record reveals two distinct trajectories: clinical studies analyzing migraine patterns relative to school schedules, weekly cycles, and temperature variations; and technical contributions to opinion mining including phrase generation algorithms and domain-specific applications for insurance and social media.

His recent work demonstrates increasing focus on healthcare applications, culminating in the 2022 adolescent migraine study, while maintaining foundational NLP contributions from his 2018 dissertation. The integration of clinical research with advanced text analytics represents his distinctive interdisciplinary approach.

Co-founding smartlytic GmbH in 2017 enabled practical implementation of his research, notably through the DMKG Kopfschmerzregister (Headache Register) developed with the German Migraine and Headache Society. His current StartupLab role extends this translational focus, mentoring healthcare innovation projects while directing the B.Sc. program in Innovative Health Care.