

Dr. rer. nat. Thanet Pitakbut is a university lecturer in the Traditional Thai Medicine Program at Thaksin University, Thailand.
His research sits at the intersection of natural products, computational chemistry, and artificial intelligence, focusing on leveraging computational simulations and machine learning to analyze medicinal plants and their therapeutic potential.
He completed his doctoral degree in Germany, fully funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Prior to his faculty appointment at Thaksin University, Dr. Pitakbut advanced his research through two postdoctoral fellowships at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU) in Germany and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in the Netherlands.
He welcomes interdisciplinary research collaborations focused on natural product discovery and AI applications in traditional and modern medicines.

My colleague and I are guest-editing a special issue on plant natural products research from classical to biotechnology and AI at Molecules MDPI. We welcome you to share and publish your valuable work with us.
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Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026


I am appointed as a university lecturer at Thaksin University, Thailand.
We are excited to share a preliminary result from our project on identifying patterns in insect olfaction using machine learning at ChemAI 2025, organized by the University of Amsterdam. This initial finding was achieved by Michael Herzog (Bachelor student) under the supervision of all PIs. Well done!!!

I received an opportunity to talk and discuss the potential of my previous project on AI and Thailand development at APTER 2025, Gent, Belgium.


