Since February 2023, he has been a director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, where he leads the Department of Machine Learning and Systems Biology.
He develops novel machine learning algorithms to detect patterns and statistical dependencies in large biological and medical datasets.
His work aims to enable the automatic generation of new knowledge from big data and to understand the relationship between the function of biological systems and their molecular properties, which is fundamental for personalized medicine.
[5] During his studies, he was a scholar of the Stiftung Maximilianeum [de], and the Bavarian Foundation for the Promotion of the Gifted.
In 2023, Borgwardt received an honorary professorship from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich by the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy.