Academic Education

1996-2000	Postdoc, University of Munich
1994-1996	PhD, University of Saarbrücken
1990-1994	PhD, University of Saarbrücken
1983-1989	Diploma in Computer Science, Universaity of Erlangen

Scientific Degrees

2000	Habilitation, University of Munich
1994	PhD, University of Saarbrücken

Professional Experience

~	Member, Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Denmark
Since 2005	Full Professor (W3) at Freiburg University
2001-2005	Full Professor (C4) at Jena University
1996-2001	Assistant Professor (C1) at Munich University

Others (Editorial work, member of scientific councils, advisory boards, awards)

Since 2018	Member of Scientific Board, ELIXIR (European Organization of Life Science Data)
Since 2016	Area Chair, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
Since 2016	Member of Editorial Board, Bioinformatics
Since 2011	Associate Editor, BMC Evolutionary Biology
Since 2011	Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
2010 - 2016	Associate Editor, BMC Evolutionary Biology
2006-2010	Member of Scientific Advisory Board, ONTOWERSE Project
Since 2006	Member Editorial Board, Algorithms for Molecular Biology