Eckart Bindewald

Staff Scientist

eckart.bindewald@uni-tuebingen.de

Agentic AI and bioinformatics expert with leadership and teaching experience.

Interests

• Agentic AI
• Generative AI & Large Language Models
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Multi-omics Data Integration
• RNA Structure Prediction & Design
• Clinical Bioinformatics

Education

1997

M.S. in Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany

2000

PhD in Natural Sciences (Physics), University of Heidelberg, Germany — Thesis on structural bioinformatics (protein structure prediction)

Biography

2004 - 2009

Programmer/Analyst, SAIC, National Cancer Institute, NIH

2009 - 2021

Senior Computational Scientist, Leidos Biomedical Research — led the biomolecular informatics group

2021 - 2025

Lead Data Scientist, Precise Software Solutions

2024 - 2025

Adjunct Faculty of Bioinformatics, Hood College

2024 - 2025

Principal Scientist AI and Bioinformatics, Karyon Bio, CA

2025

Staff Scientist, Universität Tübingen