Prof. Dr. Stephan Ossowski leads the Genome Informatics Group at the University of Tübingen. He obtained his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (2006–2010), where he developed novel next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods for plant genome analysis. From 2010 to 2017, as a group leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, he expanded his research to human disease and cancer genomics, pioneering the use of emerging long-read sequencing technologies. Since joining Tübingen in 2017, his group has focused on developing advanced NGS analysis methods and AI-driven clinical decision support systems for rare disease and cancer diagnostics. Currently, the Ossowski Lab is at the forefront of applying long-read whole-genome sequencing (LR-GS) in clinical research, contributing to several European initiatives, including Genomes of Europe, Solve-RD, ERDERA, lonGER, and ELRIN.