Christoph Steinbeck

Steinbeck's research interests^[2][9][10] have involved the elucidation of chemical structures of metabolites. He was one of the first chemists to develop open source tools for cheminformatics. He initiated JChemPaint,^[11] was founder of the Chemistry Development Kit,^[12][13] and is responsible for leading the team working on Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI).^{[14][15][16][17]} He headed the Cheminformatics and Metabolomics group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom from 2008 to 2016. He became a professor for analytical chemistry, cheminformatics and chemometrics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in Thuringia, Germany in March 2017. Since 2020, Steinbeck is leading the German National Research Data Infrastructure for Chemistry (NFDI4Chem)^[18] and in August 2022, he became vice President for digitalisation of the Friedrich Schiller University.^[19] Together with a few other chemists he was a founder member of the Blue Obelisk^[20][21] movement in 2005.^[22]

Steinbeck was past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cheminformatics, past director of the Metabolomics Society,^[23] past chair of the Computers-Information-Chemistry division of the German Chemical Society, past trustee of the Chemical Structure Association Trust,^[24] and a lifetime member of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists.^[25]

• www.steinbeck-molecular.de