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Simon Kohl
Latent LabsFounder & CEO
Simon Kohl co-developed AlphaFold 2, which transformed protein-structure prediction, and created its widely used confidence score. He later co-led DeepMind's protein-design team and founded Latent Labs to build AI systems that design new proteins.
Career & education
Current roleLatent LabsJul 2023-presentFounder & CEO
Latent LabsJul 2023-presentPreviously
Joint Team Lead, Protein DesignApr 2021-Dec 2022
Senior Research ScientistOct 2020-Apr 2021
Research ScientistJan 2019-Oct 2020
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations79,659As of Sep 7, '26
Selected contributions
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
With John Jumper, Richard Evans, Alexander Pritzel, Tim Green, Michael Figurnov, Olaf Ronneberger, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool and others ·Presented AlphaFold 2, predicting the three-dimensional shapes of proteins with accuracy often approaching laboratory measurements, helping researchers investigate how proteins work from their sequences alone.
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