Oliver Kohlbacher is professor for Applied Bioinformatics at the University of Tübingen, director of the institute for Translational BIoinformatics at the University Hospital Tübingen, and director of the Institute for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics at University of Tübingen.

His research focuses on methods for the analysis of large-scale omics data (genomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics). He is co-director of GHGA (German Human Genome-Phenome Archive) and also coordinates one of the service centers within de.NBI/ELIXIR-DE and the medical data integration center (meDIC) at UT within the German national medical informatics initiative.