Christoph Steinbeck

Christoph Steinbeck (born 1966 in Neuwied^[3]) is a German chemist and has a professorship for analytical chemistry, cheminformatics and chemometrics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Thuringia.^[4][5]

Christoph Steinbeck
Born	1966 (age 58–59) Neuwied, Germany
Alma mater	University of Bonn
Known for	Chemistry Development Kit Journal of Cheminformatics JChemPaint ChEBI
Awards	Blue Obelisk award[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Cheminformatics Bioinformatics Metabolism[2]
Institutions	Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena EMBL-EBI Tufts University Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology[citation needed] Cologne University[citation needed] University of Bonn
Thesis	LUCY, ein Programm zur Konstitutionsbestimmung aus Korrelations-NMR-Experimenten sowie Beispiele zur Identifizierung von Naturstoffen durch NMR-Spektroskopie (1995)
Website	steinbeck-molecular.de

Education

Steinbeck received his PhD from the University of Bonn^[6] in 1995 for work on LUCY, a software program for structural elucidation from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) correlation experiments.^[7] In 2003 he received his habilitation.^[8]

Research

Steinbeck's research interests^{[2][9][10][11]} have involved the elucidation of chemical structures of metabolites. He was one of the first chemists to develop open source tools for cheminformatics. He initiated JChemPaint,^[12] was founder of the Chemistry Development Kit,^[13][14] and is responsible for leading the team working on Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI).^{[15][16][17][18]} He headed the Cheminformatics and Metabolomics group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom from 2008 to 2016. He became a professor for analytical chemistry, cheminformatics and chemometrics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Thuringia, Germany in March 2017. Since 2020, Steinbeck is leading the German National Research Data Infrastructure for Chemistry (NFDI4Chem)^[19] and in August 2022, he became vice President for digitalisation of the Friedrich Schiller University.^[20] Together with a few other chemists he was a founder member of the Blue Obelisk^[21][22] movement in 2005.^[23]

Steinbeck was past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cheminformatics, past director of the Metabolomics Society,^[24] past chair of the Computers-Information-Chemistry division of the German Chemical Society, past trustee of the Chemical Structure Association Trust,^[25] and a lifetime member of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists.^[26]