Head
Prof. Dr. Dominik Grimm
Head of the professorship
Phone: +49 (0) 9421 187-230
Mail: dominik.grimm@hswt.de
TUM Campus Straubing
Petersgasse 18
D-94315 Straubing
Petersgasse 18 Room: 00.027
Vita
Employment & Education History
- Since July 2020: Founding Member of Synthetic Biology Foundry SynBiofoundry@TUM (https://www.cs.tum.de/forschung/synbiofoundry/)
- Since September 2019: Affiliated Professor @ TUM Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich
- Since March 2018: Professor for Bioinformatics (W2, tenured)
University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability - Aug. 2016 – Feb. 2018: Scientist, Bioinformatics
Exosome Diagnostics GmbH, Martinsried - Jan. 2015 – Juli 2016: PostDoc, Bioinformatics and Machine Learning
ETH Zürich, Machine Learning and Computational Biology Lab
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Basel, Switzerland - Dec. 2013 – Dec. 2014: Scientific Assistant, Bioinformatics and Machine Learning
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen - April 2011 – Nov. 2013: PhD-Student, Bioinformatics and Machine Learning
Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems & Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology
Machine Learning and Computational Biology Research Group, Tübingen
Research Internships
- Research Internship, Bioinformatics
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Center for Health Informatics, Australien - Research Internship, Bioinformatics & Data-Warehouse
University of Cambridge, U.K.
FlyMine/InterMine Gruppe, Cambridge, U.K., (in collaboration with the European Bioinformatics Institute) - Research Internship, Bioinformatics & Data-Warehouse
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
Proteomics Services Gruppe, Hinxton, U.K., (in collaboration with the University of Cambridge)
Education
- 2006 – 2011 Student in Bioinformatics at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
Additional Appointments
- Affiliated Professor @ TUM Department of Informatics, Technical University of Munich
- Information Officer @ TUM Campus Straubing (https://www.it.tum.de/cioio-gremium/mitglieder/#c10017)
- Member of the Institute Council
Research Grants
| Year | Funding |
| 2022 | “Development and evaluation of weed application maps for the use of robots for mechanical weed control (EWIS2)”, funded by the “Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten” (own budget ~249’000€, 3 years) |
| 2021 | “New machine learning techniques for more accurate plant breeding by integrating heterogeneous external factors (CropML)“, funded by the BMBF, ~270’000 EUR, 3 years |
| 2021 | “Reinforcement Learning for Automated Flowsheet Synthesis of Steady-State Processes”, funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), ~315’000 EUR, 3 years |
| 2021 | “Glycosid Produktion”, funded by the “Bayrisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Landesentwicklung und Energie” together with TUM and three industry partners (own budget ~152’000 EUR, 2 years) |
| 2020 | “Evaluation and development of modern methods of artificial intelligence for automatic weed detection in sorghum using drones” (EWIS), funded by the “Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten” with ~0.55 million EUR, joint project with the TFZ and LfL, (own budget ~244’000 EUR, 3 years) |
| 2020 | “Digitale Management-Unterstützungssysteme für kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen in Wertschöpfungsketten von Zierpflanzen, Stauden und Schnittblumen” (PlantGrid), funded by the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food with ~1.4 million EUR, 5 labs, >10 industry partners (own budget ~220’000 EUR, 3 years) |
Awards, Honors & Scholarships
- Supervisory Award, first round at TUM Campus Straubing (2022)
- Prize for Excellence in Teaching at TUM Campus Straubing (2021)
- Prize for Excellence in Teaching at TUM Campus Straubing (2020)
- Max Planck Ph.D. Scholarship.Ph.D. scholarship (2011-2013)
- Oral Presentation Prize (Poster), Awarded for outstanding oral presentation, Ph.D. Symposium 2012,
International Ph.D. Program in the Biological Sciences.
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany. (2012) - InWent Practical Training Semester Abroad. Scholarship for internship in Australia (2009-2010)
- Erasmus. Scholarship for internship in U.K. (2008)
- SPURT, Second place at the robotics competition SPURT at the University of Rostock, Germany. (2001)
- Jugend forscht, Third place in the regional competition, Passau, Germany. (2001)
Publications
A full list of publications can be found here, at Google Scholar or at ResearchGate.
