He leads the biomedical AI Lab, specializing in the development of data science and information retrieval techniques with the goal of improving patient safety, individual health and quality of medical care. He received his training in artificial intelligence and machine learning in Germany, Scotland, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Carsten has authored more than 70 conference and journal articles on topics pertaining to automatic large-scale text processing and retrieval as well as information extraction from unstructured natural language resources.