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Burkhard Rost conducts research in bioinformatics and computer-aided biology, focusing on predicting the functions and structures of proteins and genes. He has a particular interest in predicting protein interactions and the effects of changing individual amino acids, fostering a deeper understanding of how proteins, genes, and cells work together. His research also emphasizes enabling diagnosis and effective treatment of various illnesses. Rost leads a research group that explores the links between artificial intelligence, machine learning, and evolutionary biology. He received his doctorate from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in 1994 after studying at the Universities of Giessen and Heidelberg. He has held research positions at the EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK, and spent a brief period in the industry at LION Bioscience in Heidelberg before assuming a professorship at Columbia University in New York in 1998. In 2009, he accepted an appointment as Chair of Bioinformatics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Rost is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and served as President of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2007. He has authored over 200 scientific publications and has a Hirsch index of 50 as of 2010.
Technical University of Munich • Munich, Germany
Leading research in bioinformatics and computational biology.