Full Professor and head of Department of Bioinformatics at University of Göttingen since 2002
Full Professor and head of Department of Bioinformatics at University of Göttingen since 2002
🔸 Founder and Editor of the journal `Algorithms for Molecular Biology' since 2006
🔹Group leader, Int. Grad. School of Bioinformatics and Genome Research, Univ. Bielefeld
🔹MIPS, Max-Planck-Institut, Martinsried, and GSF Research Center, Neuherberg
🔹Postdoc, GSF Research Center, Neuherberg
🔹Dr. math., Univ. Bielefeld. Thesis work on multiple sequence alignment. Supervisor: Prof. A. Dress
🔹 Diplom in Mathematics, Univ. Munich. Thesis work on partial differential equations. Supervisor: Prof. J. Batt
🔹 Vordiplom (comparable to BSc) in Biology, Univ. Freiburg.
Editorial service
🔸BMC Bioinformatics
🔸Algorithms for Molecular Biology
🔸The Open Applied Informatics Journal
🔸Advances in Bioinformatics
🔸PeerJ
🔸NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
🔸Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
📄 Research interests
: algorithms for sequence analysis, in particular alignment-free sequence comparison