Research areas include data-driven modeling and scientific machine learning for biological dynamics from image data, numerical simulation methods for spatiotemporal dynamics in 3D biological geometries, parallel and scalable high-performance computing for systems biology, and scientific visualization for large microscopy and biology datasets.
Research Experience
Founded the 'Computational Biophysics Laboratory (CBL)' in April 2006 at ETH Zurich; renamed to 'MOSAIC Group' in 2008 to better reflect its activities; moved to the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden in June 2012, becoming part of the Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD).
Background
Professor Sbalzarini leads the MOSAIC group, which focuses on scientific computing for image-based systems biology. The team does not conduct its own experiments or run a wet lab but develops and applies new algorithms to study computational models of biological systems.
Miscellany
The name MOSAIC is derived from the concept of 'a combination of diverse elements forming a coherent whole', symbolizing researchers from various cultural and academic backgrounds working together in a truly interdisciplinary team that develops, teaches, and applies models, simulations, and algorithms for interdisciplinary computing.