Lara Urban

Lara obtained her PhD in statistical genomics from EMBL-EBI, EMBL, and the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in 2019. As an independent Humboldt Research Fellow in New Zealand, Lara then combined this expertise with her background in ecology, and applied genomics and machine learning in the context of nature conservation. In 2022, Lara obtained a Helmholtz Principal Investigator Grant and other funding to start her own research group at the Helmholtz AI Institute, the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, and the Technical University of Munich, where her group now focuses on using genomics and AI to better understand One Health.