Education:
- 10/1991-05/1995 Diploma studies Informatics in the Natural Sciences, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University. Thesis title: Affix Trees (advisor: Prof. Robert Giegerich)
- 05/1995-01/1997 PhD studies, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University. Thesis title: Divide-and-Conquer Multiple Sequence Alignment (advisors: Prof. Andreas Dress, Prof. Robert Giegerich)
Employment:
- 05/1995-02/1997 Staff scientist at the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Structure Formation (FSPM), Bielefeld University.
- 03/1997-08/1997 Postdoc at the Graduate College Structure Formation, FSPM, Bielefeld University.
- 09/1997-08/1998 Postdoc at the Department of Computer Science, University of California at Davis.
- 09/1998-02/2001 Postdoc at the Theoretical Bioinformatics Division, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg.
- 03/2001-02/2002 Head of Junior Research Group Algorithmical Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin.
- since 03/2002 University professor for Genome Informatics, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University.
Academic service:
- since 01/2004 Associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
- since 01/2010 Associate editor of BMC Bioinformatics
Theses advised (by end of 2012):
- 35 Bachelor Theses
- 46 Master and Diploma Theses
- 23 PhD Theses
Member of conference steering committees:
- since 09/2012 Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI)
Member of conference program committees:
- GCB: 2000 (co-chair), 2004 (co-chair), 2010, 2011, 2012
- WABI: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 (co-chair)
- ISMB: 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013
- RECOMB: 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012
- ECCB: 2004, 2005, 2009, 2012, 2013
- RECOMB-CG: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
- IWBRA/ISBRA: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
- CPM: 2006, 2010, 2012 (co-chair), 2013
- SPIRE: 2006, 2010, 2011
- ALENEX: 2007
- SHORT-SIG/HiTSeq: 2009 (co-chair), 2010 (co-chair), 2011 (co-chair)
- LATA: 2011, 2012
- ACM-BCB: 2011, 2012
- RECOMB-Seq: 2012, 2013
- ESA: 2012
- RECOMB-AB: 2012
- Others: CompLife 2005, ISBB 2006, BIBM 2007, ICCABS 2010, ITMAB 2011, FAW-AAIM 2013, BSB 2013
Member of conference organizing committeees:
- GCB: 2000, 2004, 2014 (chair)
Best paper award:
- CPM 2008: HP Distance via Double Cut and Join (A. Bergeron, J. Mixtacki, J. Stoye)
Keynote speaker:
- JOBIM 2006: Index Structures in Biological Sequence Analysis: From Simplicity to Complexity and Back
- JOBIM 2009: Computational Short Read Metagenomics
- BSB 2012: Genome Rearrangement by Double Cut and Join
- ALGO 2012: Algorithms for Genome Rearrangement by Double Cut and Join
Administration:
- since 10/2002 Vice-Speaker of the Board of Directors, German Bioinformatics Society (GI-Fachgruppe BIOINF)
- since 10/2002 Member of the Faculty Assembly of the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
- since 12/2002 Speaker of the Institute for Bioinformatics, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University
- since 01/2004 Member of the Board of Directors, Center for Botechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University
- 10/2002-03/2007 Head of Examination Board, Diploma program Informatics in the Natural Sciences, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
- 10/2007-09/2012 Head of Examination Board, Master program Informatics in the Natural Sciences, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
- 04/2007-09/2009 Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University.
- 10/2009-09/2010 Vice-dean of the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University.
- since 10/2010 Dean of the Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University.
