Tim Wölfle

Clinical Research · Neuroscience · AI

About Me

I’m a neurology resident interested in the intersection of clinical research (pragmatic trials, epidemiology, digital biomarkers), neuroscience (multiple sclerosis, wearables, omics, electroencephalography), and artificial intelligence (machine learning, deep neural networks, large language models).

My goal is to produce high-quality, reproducible, and open research. I have the privilege to work in a great team with renowned clinicians and scientists at the Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel (RC2NB) on developing and validating smartphone-based digital biomarkers for people with multiple sclerosis.

In my spare time I enjoy rock climbing, the mountains, and literature (in particular science-fiction classics).

Curriculum Vitae

Private Projects

Does ChatGPT only rhyme in English? (2023)

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has rightfully left the world in awe: As the Guardian has put it in a recent explainer, “the AI program can churn out answers to the biggest and smallest questions in life, and draw up college essays, fictional stories, haikus, and even job application letters”. But can it rhyme in languages other than English?

Votes for German government parties by age (2022)

The left column shows the German government coalitions formed since 1972. The percentages indicate the proportion the government parties gained together in the respective parliamentary election (in secondary votes), thus roughly representing the proportion of voters represented by the government. The table on the right shows the deviation of German government party votes by age groups, derived through the representative electoral statistics. Violet age groups voted less for government parties compared to the average, while green age groups voted for them more.

Local Citation Network (2019) · GitHub

This web app aims to help scientists with their literature review using metadata from Microsoft Academic and Crossref. Academic papers cite one another, thus creating a citation network. This web app visualizes subsets of the global citation network, defined by the references of a given set of input articles. In addition, the most cited references missing in the set of input articles are suggested for further review. The dutch bibliometric blog LeidenMadtrics invited me to write a blog post about the functionality: Making literature discovery fun (December 19, 2019).

Origami Cards (2018)

This is the only project in the list that's not a web app of some kind but rather a physical art project: I've designed post cards folded like origami envelopes to show classic art pieces in the public domain from painters like Van Gogh, Claude Monet to Paul Klee. When the origami cards are opened, a letter or card can be revealed. Currently this site only showcases a few cards, but eventually I want to offer the print masters for free download. Theoretically, any painting or picture could be printed using the mosaic segmentation technique I've developed. If you're interested in creating your own cards, just send me a quick e-mail!

Prisoner's Dilemma Visualized (2016) · GitHub

The prisoner's dilemma is a popular example of game theory. It has gained renewed attention for a class of short-memory strategies called zero-determinant first described by Press & Dyson in 2012, all of which is wrapped up very nicely in an article by Brian Hayes for the American Scientist. This site visualizes the result matrix of these new strategies against old classics in what is called stochastic iterated prisoner's dilemma, an endless series of games. You can change the input strategies at the bottom or visualize your own result matrix.

PlainChess (2011) · GitHub

PlainChess aims to be a simple yet full–featured and beautiful alternative to the cluttered chess portals currently existing. Its primary goal is to allow two persons to play a round of chess, no matter whether they happen to be at the same location or on a different continent. It's designed to be platform independent and to run on every computer or smart phone equipped with a modern web browser and thus enabling people everywhere around the globe to play chess, at home and on the go, online and offline. This was my first HTML5 app and mainly an exercise for myself to discover the many possibilities that the new web technologies offered. It found some resonance in the German blogosphere and today roughly 20-30 online games are finished daily.

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