Fabian Theis leads the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Munich since 2013 and holds the "Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems" Chair at the Department of Mathematics of TU Munich.

Fabian holds MSc degrees in Mathematics and Physics (University of Regensburg, 2000) a PhD degree in Physics from the same university (2002) and a PhD in Computer Science (University of Granada, 2003). In 2017, he was awarded the Erwin Schrödinger prize together within an interdisciplinary team at the ETH Zürich.

He has been working as visiting researcher at the department of Architecture and Computer Technology (University of Granada, Spain), at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Wako, Japan), at FAMU-FSU (Florida State University, USA) and at TUAT's Laboratory for Signal and Image Processing (Tokyo, Japan).