Personal Information

Room C317

Sand 14, Tübingen, Germany 72076

Office hours: Wed 9-10 (Please send email ahead if possible as I tend to travel a lot.)

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Work: +49-7071-29-70457

2001 PhD in Computer Science, Saarland University/Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken (supervisors: Hans-Peter Lenhof and Kurt Mehlhorn)
1996 Diplom in Physical Chemistry, Saarland University, Saarbrücken

2018- Director, Institute for Translational Bioinformatics, University Medical Center, Tübingen

2012-2018 Director, Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC)

2013- Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tübingen

2011- Professor for Applied Bioinformatics

2008-2010 Dean, Faculty for Information Sciences and Cognitive Sciences

2003-2011 Professor for Simulation of Biological Systems, University of Tübingen

2001-2002 Research Scientist at Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD, USA

2000-2003 Head of the Junior Research Group for Protein Docking, Center for Bioinformatics, Saarbrücken

2023 Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
2005 bwCon Open Source Award
2001 PhD 'summa cum laude'
2000 Heinz Billing Award for the Advancement of Scientific Computation of the Max Planck Society

Married, gay, pianist, photographer, scuba diver - not neccesssarily in that order.
My Erdös Number seems to be 3
My academic genealogy can be found here