Ivo F. Sbalzarini is full Professor on the Faculty of Computer Science of TU Dresden since October 2014, where he holds the Chair of Scientific Computing for Systems Biology and heads the Center for Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD). At the same time, Ivo is also a tenured Senior Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics since June 2012, and a member of the Faculty of Mathematics of TU Dresden since February 2016. He is the founder and head of the MOSAIC Group.

The MOSAIC Group does research in scientific computing for image-based systems biology. They combine expertise from computer science, mathematics, physics, and biology in order to develop and apply computational methods for the study of spatiotemporal biological processes in 3D. They exploit the unifying framework of particle methods for numerical simulation, image analysis, and model identification.

We aim at addressing significant biological challenges using novel computational methods and algorithms, without which the problem could not be solved. We follow a co-design approach where the biological question inspires the development of novel comput. methods. Theory, Algorithms, Software, and the biological Application then co-evolve. We focus on the following methods as required in image-based systems biology: Adaptive Multi-Resolution Simulation Methods Using Particles Bio-Image Processing using Particle Methods Parallel High-Performance Computing for Particle Methods Algorithms for Black-box Optimization and Sensitivity Analysis