Teaching in Medical Informatics

Find below our courses across BSc, MSc and PhD levels, and information you will find useful during your studies.

Introductory Slides (Medical Informatics Master's)

Link to slides

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.

Current Semester Courses

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).

Previous Teaching

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

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

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

Thesis Topics

We are offering a range of topics for Master’s and Bachelor’s theses and research projects.

Feel free to check our group members’ research interests, and contact us to explore 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!

Semester Abroad

If you are interested in completing a semester of our degree program outside Germany, please find all details at Studying Abroad.