Leon Hetzel
Scholar

Leon Hetzel

Google Scholar ID: GoOPjt4AAAAJ
PhD Student @Helmholtz Munich & TUM
Generative ModellingSingle-Cell GenomicsDrug DiscoveryAI for Science
Citations & Impact
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Citations
1,437
 
H-index
8
 
i10-index
8
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
6
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Paper 'MAGNet: Motif-Agnostic Generation of Molecules from Shapes' presented at an MDSI student event
  • chemCPA awarded 'Best Paper of the Year 2022' at the MDSI Opening Ceremony
  • Work on flattening statistical manifolds of VAEs received an oral presentation at the 'AI4Science' workshop at NeurIPS 2023
  • Presented chemCPA at NeurIPS 2022
  • Co-authored paper 'Interpretable and fine-grained visual explanations for convolutional neural networks'
  • Contributed to the development of CPA (Compositional Perturbation Autoencoder) for predicting single-cell transcriptomic responses to complex perturbations
Education
  • 2020–present: PhD in Machine Learning & Computational Biology, Technical University of Munich (TUM), supervised by Fabian Theis and Stephan Günnemann
  • 2020–present: Associated PhD student, Helmholtz Munich
  • 2018–2020: MSc in Computational Physics, Heidelberg University
  • 2018–2019: MSc in Mathematical Sciences, University of Oxford
  • 2014–2017: BSc in Physics, Bremen University