Upon finishing his studies in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Norbert pursued his interdisciplinary PhD thesis in Computational Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Bonn focusing on computer-aided design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of protease inhibitors. After starting his professional career at Merck KGaA as Principal Scientist, Norbert joined Sanofi in 2016 as Lab Head for Bioinformatics within the Biologics Research department. Currently Norbert is heading the Data Science & Computational Design group to support the discovery of next generation protein therapeutics.