Tanzeem Haque

Tanzeem Haque started out to be a physician and studied medicine for two years in Munich. While working in the healthcare frontline during her internship as a medical student, she knew it wasn’t her calling. She decided to study Bioinformatics instead and graduated from the University of Munich (LMU) and the Technische Universität München (TUM). She worked as a researcher at Helmholtz Institute and Max Planck Institute.

Her main areas of research were Big Data Analysis and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics. She also served as a teaching assistant at the Computer Science department of TUM. She was elected head of the gender equality office of the students union in LMU and later became the deputy for the faculty’s gender equality officer – Dr. Anne Brüggemann-Klein, who was the only female Professor at the Computer Science Faculty in TUM in 2016.

Extremely diverse and always hungry for new challenges, Haque left academia and joined Arvato CRM Healthcare at Bertelsmann, a multinational conglomerate in Germany, to seek industrial experiences. Being the senior data engineer of the company, she worked in Data Science & Engineering and AI with German claims data for occupational health promotion.

Since April 2020 Haque has been involved with the nonprofit organization for women empowerment, HerWILL-Women Inspired in Life and Leadership. She is the Director of Operations and STEM Outreach of HerWILL and also functions as the Lead for Data Insights & Social Media for the HerWILL Leadership Team.

In private life, she is a mother of a 10-year-old girl, a vivid reader, and goes solo backpacking or hiking in the Alps whenever she feels the need of taking a break! She has traveled and backpacked in 30 countries in the world and plans to reach the milestone of 100 countries by the age of 50.

“Travel is Fatal to Prejudice, Bigotry, and Narrow-Mindedness, and Many of Our People Need It Sorely on These Accounts” (Mark Twain, 1869).