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Education
- 2001
in Computer Science, Saarland University/Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken (supervisors: Hans-Peter Lenhof and Kurt Mehlhorn)PhD - 1996 Diplom in Physical Chemistry, Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Biography
2018- Director, Institute for Translational Bioinformatics, University Medical Center, Tübingen
2015- Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
2015- Deputy speaker, Center for Personalized Medicine (ZPM)
2012-2018 Director, Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC)
2013- Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tübingen
2011- Professor for Applied Bioinformatics
2010-2011 Speaker, Department of Computer Science
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
Honors & Awards
- 2000 Heinz Billing Award for the Advancement of Scientific Computation of the Max Planck Society
- 2001
PhD 'summa cum laude' - 2005
bwCon Open Source Award
Other Trivia
- 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