New students in the Medical Informatics Master's program: please see Prof. Pfeifer's Welcome message and information slides.
Alternative recommendation for 1st semester students during Winter Semester 2025/26: Addendum to Course Plan.

With questions about your studies (modules, courses, thesis & project topics, etc.), contact Dr. Markus Zimmermann: m.zimmermannspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de.
 

WINTER 2026/2027
For more details about our courses, please visit ALMA. Please check if your course takes place online or in presence, there might be changes during the semester.

• Lecture: Advanced Medical Informatics
• Lecture: Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning for Bioinformaticians and Medical Informaticians
• Seminar: Machine Learning to Fight Infections
• Seminar: Computer Science Methods for Privacy Preservation in Biomedical Studies: Data Privacy
• Practical course: Practical Time Series Analysis in Medicine and Biology with Python
• Practical course: Secure Processing of Medical Data: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in Practice
• Proseminar: Introduction to Medical Informatics

For programming support (Java, Python, etc.), please contact Dr. Philipp Thiel (philipp.thiel [at] ibmi.uni-tuebingen.de).
 

SUMMER 2026

• Preparatory Course in Programming for Medical/Life Scientists
• Lecture: Advanced Medical Informatics
• Lecture: Medical Data Science
• Lecture: Introduction to Cryptography
• Seminar: Machine Learning to Fight Infections
• Seminar: Machine Learning for Health
• Practical course: Machine Learning in Biomedicine 
   

WINTER 2025/2026

• Lecture: Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning for Bioinformaticians and Medical Informaticians
• Seminar: Machine Learning for Health
• Seminar: Computer Science Methods for Privacy Preservation in Biomedical Studies: Data Privacy
• Proseminar: Introduction to Medical Informatics
• Practical course: Practical Time Series Analysis in Medicine and Biology with Python
• Practical course: Secure Processing of Medical Data: Privacy-enhancing Technologies in Practice
   

SUMMER 2025

• Lecture: Bioinformatics for Life Scientists
• Lecture: Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning for Bioinformaticians and Medical Informaticians
• Lecture: Introduction to Cryptography
• Seminar: Machine Learning to Fight Infections
• Practical course: Machine Learning in Biomedicine 
   

WINTER 2024/2025

• Lecture: Advanced Medical Informatics
• Lecture: Medical Data Science
• Seminar: Machine Learning for Health
• Proseminar: Grundlagen der Medizininformatik
• Seminar: Privacy-preserving Methods in Biomedical Studies: Data Privacy
• Practical course: Secure Processing of Medical Data: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in Practice
   

SUMMER 2024

• Lecture: Bioinformatics for Life Scientists
• Lecture: Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning for Bioinformaticians and Medical Informaticians
• Lecture: Introduction to Cryptography
• Seminar: Machine Learning to Fight Infections
• Practical course: Machine Learning in Biomedicine 
   

WINTER 2023/2024

• Lecture: Advanced Medical Informatics
  Lecture: Medical Data Science
• Seminar: Machine Learning for Health
• Seminar: Privacy-preserving Methods in Biomedical Studies: Data Privacy
   

SUMMER 2023

• Preparatory Course in Programming for Medical/Life Scientists
• Lecture: Bioinformatics for Life Scientists
• Lecture: Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning for Bioinformaticians and Medical Informaticians
• Lecture: Introduction to Cryptography
• Seminar: Machine Learning to Fight Infections
   

WINTER 2022/2023

• Preparatory Course in Programming for Medical/Life Scientists
• Lecture: Advanced Medical Informatics
• Lecture: Medical Data Science
• Seminar: Machine Learning for Health
   

SUMMER 2022

• Lecture: Bioinformatics for Life Scientists
• Lecture: Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning for Bioinformaticians and Medical Informaticians
• Lecture: Introduction to Cryptography
• Seminar: Computer Science Methods for Privacy Preservation and Personalized Medicine
  In this seminar, we discuss recently published research articles about ways to preserve privacy for sensitive data, privacy-preserving machine learning and personalized or precision medicine approaches.
   

WINTER 2021/2022

• Lecture: Advanced Medical Informatics
• Lecture: Medical Data Science
• Seminar: Machine Learning for Health
• Practical Course: Software Development with Scrum
   

SUMMER 2021

• Lecture: Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning for Bioinformaticians and Medical Informaticians
• Seminar: Machine Learning for Health
• Preparatory Course in Programming for Life Scientists
   

WINTER 2020/2021

• Lecture: Advanced Medical Informatics
• Lecture: Medical Data Science
• Seminar: Machine Learning for Health
   

SUMMER 2020

• Lecture: Medical Data Science
• Lecture: Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning for Bioinformaticians and Medical Informaticians
• Lecture: Bioinformatics for Life Scientists
• Seminar: Computer Science Methods for Privacy Preservation and Personalized Medicine
• Software Project in Medical Informatics
   

WINTER 2019/2020

• Lecture: Advanced Medical Informatics
• Practical Course: Machine Learning in Biomedicine
• Seminar: Machine Learning for Health
• Seminar: Biomedical Informatics Methods for Infection Research
   

SUMMER 2019

• Lecture: Medical Data Science
• Lecture: Bioinformatics for Life Scientists
• Seminar: Computer Science Methods for Privacy Preservation and Personalized Medicine
• Seminar: Probabilistic Graphical Models and Probabilistic Programming
• Software Project in Medical Informatics
   

WINTER 2018/2019

• Lecture: Advanced Medical Informatics
• Practical course: Machine Learning in Biomedicine
• Seminar: Machine Learning for Health
   

SUMMER 2018

• Lecture: Medical Data Science
• Lecture: Bioinformatics for Life Scientists
• Seminar: Computer Science Methods for Privacy Preservation in Biomedical Studies
• Software Project in Medical Informatics
   

WINTER 2017/2018

• Lecture: Advanced Medical Informatics
• Practical course: Machine Learning in Biomedicine
• Seminar: Machine Learning for Health
   

SUMMER 2017

• Lecture: Medical Data Science
• Seminar: Biomedical Informatics Methods for Infection Research
• Software Project in Medical Informatics
   

Explore the IBMI page for Members' areas of expertise and finding your matching topic of interest! 

Our Chair also offers some topics for Master’s and Bachelor’s theses and research projects. Feel free to check our group members’ research interests, and/or contact Dr. Markus Zimmermann m.zimmermannspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de to identify your area for supervision together.

You can download our Medical Informatics (or Bioinformatics) Master's Thesis Template here.

We are looking forward to discussing further details with you!