Hey there—welcome! 👋

I’m Lars Dornfeld, a computational protein designer fascinated by structural bioinformatics, de novo protein design, and machine-learning-powered biology.
After starting in the wet lab—engineering proteins and probing chemical biology—I shifted my focus to computational methods, building deep-learning models that accelerate discovery.

Explore my projects, papers, and code below. Thanks for stopping by!

I’m a PhD student in the Biomolecular Design Group at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (Munich), advised by Prof. Lukas Milles with Prof. Karsten Borgwardt guiding my deep-learning work.
My research bridges high-throughput wet-lab automation with state-of-the-art neural networks to create novel, functional proteins from scratch.