Academic Degrees

• M.Sc. in Medical Informatics, University of Tuebingen, Germany, 2021.
  Thesis: Compensating for the Effects of Crucial Forgetting with Deep Neural Networks in the Online Learning Setting of the Personal Health Train
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2018.
   

Publications

• Florian König, Jonas C Ditz, Elham Shamsara, Pontus Hedberg, Iuri Fanti, Pontus Nauclér, Luca Carioti, Andreas Walker, Milosz Parczewski, Francis Drobniewski, Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein, Maurizio Zazzi, Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, Anders Sönnerborg, Nico Pfeifer, on behalf of EuCARE 
  ClinIAN: Clinically Informed Attention Network
  Bioinformatics Advances, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2026, vbag254, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag254
• Eggeling, R., König, F., Koeppel, L. et al. 
  Long-term impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on respiratory viruses in Germany 
  BMC Public Health 25, 2654 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23983-8
• Pontus Hedberg, Karol Serwin, Maria Francesca Greco, Joana P. V. Pereira, Dovile Juozapaite, Sara De Benedittis, Francesca Bai, Nadine Lübke, Tobias Wienemann, Iuri Fanti, Florian König, Nico Pfeifer, Rolf Kaiser, Maurizio Zazzi, Alessandro Cozzi-Lepri, Daniel Naumovas, Giulia Marchetti, Milosz Parczewski, Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, Francesca Incardona, Anders Sönnerborg, Pontus Nauclér
  Bacterial and Viral Coinfections in Adult Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 Throughout the Pandemic: A Multinational Cohort Study in the EuCARE Project 
  The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 231, Issue 6, 15 June 2025, Pages e1091–e1101, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf167
• Elham Shamsara, Florian König, Nico Pfeifer 
  An informed deep learning model of the Omicron wave and the impact of vaccination 
  Computers in Biology and Medicine, Volume 191, 2025, 109968, ISSN 0010-4825, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.109968
• Pontus Hedberg, Milosz Parczewski, Karol Serwin, Giulia Marchetti, Francesca Bai, Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, Joana P.V. Pereira, Francis Drobniewski, Henrik Reschreiter, Daniel Naumovas, Francesca Ceccherini Silberstein, Gibran Horemheb Rubio Quintanares, Matilu Mwau, Christina Toscano, Florian König, Nico Pfeifer, Maurizio Zazzi, Iuri Fanti, Francesca Incardona, Alessandro Cozzi-lepri, Anders Sönnerborg, Pontus Nauclér 
  In-hospital mortality during the wild-type, alpha, delta, and omicron SARS-CoV-2 waves: a multinational cohort study in the EuCARE project 
  The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, 2024; 38, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.100855
• Varisco, B., Bai, F., De Benedittis, S., Tavelli A., Cozzi-Lepri A., Sala M., Miraglia F.G., Santoro M.M., Ceccherini-Silberstein F., Shimoni Y., Ravid S., Kozlovski T., König F., Pfeifer N. Shamsara E., Parczewski M., d'Arminio Monforte A., Incardona F. Mommo C., Incardona F., Marchetti G. 
  EuCARE-POSTCOVID Study: a multicentre cohort study on long-term post-COVID-19 manifestations 
  BMC Infect Dis 23, 684 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08595-0
• B. Bischke, P. Helber, F. König, D. Borth, A. Dengel
  Overcoming Missing and Incomplete Modalities with Generative Adversarial Networks for Building Footprint Segmentation 
  2018 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), La Rochelle, France, 2018, pp. 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1109/CBMI.2018.8516271