Prof. Dr. Alexander Meyer
Prof. Dr. Alexander Meyer
Research Group Lead / Charité
Affiliation: BIFOLD
Prof. Alexander Meyer, MD, is a leading physician-scientist specializing in cardiovascular medicine, data science, and artificial intelligence. He is the Charité Professor for Clinical AI and Data Science at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, serves as Chief Medical Information Officer at the German Heart Center of the Charité (DHZC), where he oversees digital innovation in patient care, and leads a BIFOLD research group. He also leads DHZC's Clinical Data Science Group and is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon.
Before transitioning to medicine, Prof. Meyer worked as a computer scientist and software developer, combining technical expertise with clinical practice. In 2016, he joined the Berlin Institute of Health’s (BIH) Clinician Scientist Program and participated in the Digital Health Accelerator from 2018 to 2020. During this time, he founded x-cardiac GmbH, a digital health company providing real-time biomarkers for postoperative risk stratification.
As a Principal Investigator in major research initiatives, Prof. Meyer focuses on data science and AI to enhance clinical decision-making and outcomes, particularly in cardiovascular care.
| 2019 | Young talent award BBGK eV |
| 2018 | Paper of month – BIH |
| 2018 | Paper of month – DZHK |
| 2010 – 2011 | Research year scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation |
| 2007 – 2012 | Scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation scholarship (“Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”) |
| 2006 | Distinction of the Center of Physiology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, DE |
| 2003 | Distinction of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Aschaffenburg, DE |
- AI-supported clinical decisions support systems
- Data science applications in healthcare
- Deep Learning
- Natural language processing and computer vision on real-time clinical data streams
- EACTS
- BBGK
- LAEKB
Antonia Popp, Alaa Abd El Al, Marie Hoffmann, Ann Laube, Jörg Kempfert, Anja Hennemuth, Alexander Meyer
Multi-view and multi-frame voting-based stenosis detection and quantification in X-ray coronary angiography
Tobias Roeschl, Marie Hoffmann, Axel Unbehaun, Henryk Dreger, Gerhard Hindricks, Volkmar Falk, Ran Balicer, Radu Tanacli, Felix Hohendanner, Alexander Meyer.
Development of an LLM Pipeline Exceeding Physician-documented Cardiovascular Risk Scores under routine clinical conditions.
Dominik Naumann, Tatjana Amler, Doreen Schoeppenthau, Sergej Holzmann, Jörg Preißinger, Matthias Franz, Nils Hinrichs, Felix Schoenrath, Alexander Meyer.
Rationale and Design of the AutoHealth Study: Prospective clinical validation of continuous multimodal in-vehicle health monitoring in real-world mobility
Anja Hirsch, Foo Wei Ten, Kyle S. Krüger, Robin C. Geyer, Tobias Röschl, Matthias I Gröschel, Paul Rostin, Roland Eils, Martin Spott, Fabian Prasser, Alexander Meyer, Julian Madrid
The Multimodal Anonymizer: a fully local multi-agent AI system for medical data deidentification
Leo Benning, Anja Hirsch, Matthias Gröschel, Tobias Röschl, Martin Spott, Felix Patricius Hans, Tim Urban, Hans-Jörg Busch, Alexander Meyer, Julian Madrid
Performance evaluation and benchmarking across 16 large language models on a comprehensive real-world emergency department triage data set
New Venture Capital for Ascléa
Berlin-based x-cardiac has a new name and a bigger mission. The company, co-founded by BIFOLD Deputy Director Alexander Meyer and known for AI tools that predict complications after heart surgery, is now called Ascléa.
BIFOLD appoints new Deputy Directors
BIFOLD appoints Prof. Dr. Begüm Demir, Prof. Dr. Konrad Rieck and Prof. Dr. Alexander Meyer, as BIFOLD Deputy Directors. With this decision, BIFOLD strengthens its leadership team and underlines its commitment to advancing cutting-edge research in data-driven technologies and machine learning.
Photo recap: AI in Medicine Workshop
Charité and BIFOLD hosted the “AI in Medicine” workshop in Berlin (Nov 24 - 25, 2025), bringing together leading experts on clinical AI, gene regulation modelling, medical LLMs and explainable AI to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between research and clinical practice.
x-cardiac receives digitization award
Artificial intelligence-based platform for clinical decision support and digital health in intensive care units - x-cardiac - receives digitization award
PD Dr. Alexander Meyer appointed as a professor for „Clinical applications of AI and data science“ at Charité
PD Dr. Med. Alexander Meyer, BIFOLD Associated Investigator and Chief Medical Information Officer at German Heart Center Berlin, was appointed as a W2 professor for „Clinical Applications of AI and Data Science“ at Charité Berlin.
His professorship will focus on the application of AI and Data Science in cardiovascular medicine. The Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data supports the professorship with two full-time positions for research assistants.