Philipp Benner is the head of the eScience group after first being a permanent researcher in statistics and machine learning at BAM. Previously he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Molecular Biology Group of Prof. Martin Vingron at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics. He worked on statistical and machine learning methods for studying gene regulation within the BIFOLD/BZML project (bifold.berlin). He did his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Jürgen Jost and his master's degree at ETH Zurich.