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Frederic Boesel

Frederic Boesel is a researcher whose work connects generative AI with synthetic biological data, cloud anomaly detection and high-resolution image synthesis. He studied mathematics at the University of Freiburg and data science at ETH Zurich, then worked as a researcher at IBM and Stability AI before joining Black Forest Labs. In 2024, he coauthored Latent Adversarial Diffusion Distillation, which produced SD3-Turbo with four unguided sampling steps, and a rectified-flow image-generation paper that won the ICML Best Paper award. In 2025, he coauthored FLUX.1 Kontext, a model for generating and editing images from text and image inputs. He is a founding member of Black Forest Labs, where he works on generative models such as the FLUX family.

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Timeline

  1. 2015–2019

    Mathematics at Freiburg

    He earns a bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the University of Freiburg in 2019.

  2. 2019–2023

    ETH Zurich and IBM

    From 2019 to 2020, he interns at BASF Digital Farming; in 2020, he works there as a data science working student. He studies data science at ETH Zurich from 2020 to 2023 and interns at IBM Research’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 2022 to 2023.

  3. 2020–2021

    Generative models for omics

    Between 2020 and 2021, he studies deep generative models for representing joint distributions in biological data, including small-sample omics datasets.

  4. 2023

    Cloud anomaly detection

    In 2023, he coauthors “Multivariate Anomaly Detection with Domain Clustering.” The paper introduces MADDoC, an unsupervised transfer learning framework for anomaly detection on multivariate time-series data across cloud infrastructure components.

  5. 2024

    Diffusion distillation at four steps

    In 2024, he coauthors Latent Adversarial Diffusion Distillation, a method applied to Stable Diffusion 3 to create SD3-Turbo with four unguided sampling steps.

  6. 2024

    An ICML Best Paper

    He coauthors “Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis,” which wins an ICML 2024 Best Paper award.

  7. 2025

    FLUX.1 Kontext

    In 2025, he coauthors FLUX.1 Kontext, a flow-matching model that unifies image generation and editing through text and image inputs.

  8. Since 2024

    At Black Forest Labs

    He joins Black Forest Labs as a founding member in 2024 and works on generative models such as the FLUX family. Before joining the lab, he works as a researcher at Stability AI and IBM.

Career

  1. Since 2024Black Forest LabsFounding Member
  2. Until 2024Stability AIResearcher
  3. 2022–2023IBM ResearchIntern
  4. 2019–2020BASFIntern, Data science working student

Education

  1. 2023ETH Zurich
  2. 2019University of FreiburgBachelor's degree in mathematics

From the biography.

  1. 11% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes Black Forest Labs. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduation, how waiting times compare between founders and top jobs, and which universities trained the most.
  2. Universities (31%) and startups and other companies (25%) employ the largest shares of 2020–2026 entrantsIncludes Black Forest Labs. Among 819 people whose first recorded role started in 2020–2026 and who have a known current organization, 60% work in commercial sectors (25% at startups and other companies, 23% at frontier labs and 13% at big tech, with 9 in two), and 31% work at universities, compared with 66% for earlier entrants.
  3. 23% of people shaping AI who left a university for a company later returned to a universityIncludes IBM. We estimate that 468 of the 2,011 people shaping AI who left a university for a company (23%) later returned to a university after a median of 5 years, and 163 of 829 (20%) made the reverse round trip.
  4. Google alumni have founded or led 133 other organizations, more than any other AI labIncludes IBM. We estimate that alumni of 17 major AI labs went on to found or lead 350 other organizations, including 226 they founded, and we trace 472 career moves directly between 23 labs since 2010.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Frederic Boesel (Black Forest Labs) — Lacuna lacuna.tiptreesystems.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Multivariate Anomaly Detection with Domain Clustering for SoCC 2023 - IBM Research research.ibm.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Fast High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Adversarial Diffusion Distillation arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. ICML 2024 Awards icml.cc. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. FLUX.1 Kontext: Flow Matching for In-Context Image Generation and Editing in Latent Space arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Frederic Boesel × Forum UnternehmerTUM forum.unternehmertum.de. Checked 21 October 2026.