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Christian Müller

Prof. Dr.

Principal Investigator

Christian Müller

is head of the Workgroup for Biomedical Statistics and Data Science at LMU Munich.

His group focus on developing and applying computational statistics and data science methods for the analysis of biological systems and is involved in multiple projects, ranging from the study of microbial communities to the dissection of epigenetic datasets.

Team members @MCML

PhD Students

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Stefanie Peschel

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Viet Tran

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Oleg Vlasovets

Recent News @MCML

Link to MCML at NeurIPS 2025

28.11.2025

MCML at NeurIPS 2025

51 Accepted Papers (38 Main, and 13 Workshops)

Link to MCML Researchers in Highly-Ranked Journals

02.01.2025

MCML Researchers in Highly-Ranked Journals

163 Papers in 2025 Highlight Scientific Impact

Link to MCML Researchers in Highly-Ranked Journals

02.01.2023

MCML Researchers in Highly-Ranked Journals

45 Papers in 2023 Highlight Scientific Impact

Link to MCML at ECML-PKDD 2022

16.09.2022

MCML at ECML-PKDD 2022

Seven Accepted Papers (4 Main, and 3 Workshops)

Publications @MCML

2025


[8]
M. V. Tran • C. L. Müller
Causal Inference Framework for Ocean Microbial Community Responses to Warmer Temperature.
Climate Change AI @NeurIPS 2025 - Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning at the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. San Diego, CA, USA, Nov 30-Dec 07, 2025. URL

[7] Top Journal
E. AilerC. L. MüllerN. Kilbertus
Instrumental variable estimation for compositional treatments.
Scientific Reports 15.5158. Feb. 2025. DOI

2023


[6]
C. KolbB. BischlC. L. MüllerD. Rügamer
Sparse Modality Regression.
IWSM 2023 - 37th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling. Dortmund, Germany, Jul 17-21, 2023. Best Paper Award. PDF

[5]
C. KolbC. L. MüllerB. BischlD. Rügamer
Smoothing the Edges: Smooth Optimization for Sparse Regularization using Hadamard Overparametrization.
Preprint (Jul. 2023). arXiv

[4] Top Journal
T. UllmannS. Peschel • P. Finger • C. L. MüllerA.-L. Boulesteix
Over-optimism in unsupervised microbiome analysis: Insights from network learning and clustering.
PLOS Computational Biology 19.1. Jan. 2023. DOI

2022


[3] A Conference
D. RügamerA. Bender • S. Wiegrebe • D. Racek • B. BischlC. L. Müller • C. Stachl
Factorized Structured Regression for Large-Scale Varying Coefficient Models.
ECML-PKDD 2022 - European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Grenoble, France, Sep 19-23, 2022. DOI

2021


[2] Top Journal
H. Seibold • S. Czerny • S. Decke • R. Dieterle • T. Eder • S. Fohr • N. Hahn • R. Hartmann • C. Heindl • P. Kopper • D. Lepke • V. Loidl • M. M. Mandl • S. Musiol • J. Peter • A. Piehler • E. Rojas • S. Schmid • H. Schmidt • M. Schmoll • L. SchneiderX.-Y. ToV. Tran • A. Völker • M. Wagner • J. Wagner • M. Waize • H. Wecker • R. Yang • S. Zellner • M. Nalenz
A computational reproducibility study of PLOS ONE articles featuring longitudinal data analyses.
PLOS One 16.6. Jun. 2021. DOI

2020


[1]
D. Davletshina • V. MelnychukV. Tran • H. Singla • M. BerrendorfE. FaermanM. FrommM. Schubert
Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for X-Ray Images.
Preprint (Jan. 2020). arXiv GitHub