Stephan Seifert Completes Tenure Process

24 February 2026

Congratulations to Stephan Seifert! The UWA researcher recently completed his tenure process and will take up a regular professorship in the Department of Chemistry on 1 March.

Stephan Seifert has been working at the Chemistry Department of the University of Hamburg and at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ since March 2020. His research is located at the interface between method development and validation of chemometric and bioinformatics methods and their practical application on spectrometric, spectroscopic, and sequence data in various research areas.

At the UWA Cluster of Excellence, he led a project on the ‘Bioinformatic Profiling of Written Artefacts’, and he is also a member of the Palm-Leaf Manuscript Profiling Initiative (PLMPI).

Stephan studied chemistry at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and received his PhD in the research group ‘Nanoscale Optical Spectroscopy’ on the classification and characterisation of pollen. From 2016 to 2020, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, developing and validating machine learning approaches for the study of chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as neurodermatitis and psoriasis.