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I’m Lars Dornfeld, a computational protein designer fascinated by structural bioinformatics, de novo protein design, and machine-learning-powered biology.
I began my scientific journey in the wet lab, engineering proteins and working on chemical biology. Later, I shifted to developing computational methods, but I still validate everything with hands-on experiments in the lab.
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.