from 2024 Head of Research, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) 2018 - present (on leave since 2024) Professor of Medical Bioinformatics and Data Analysis, Heidelberg University, Medical Faculty, Heidelberg, DE 2018 - today EMBL/University Hospital Heidelberg Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit Group Leader, Heidelberg, DE 2015 - 2018 Professor of computational Biomedicine, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, DE 2015 - 2018 Visiting Group Leader, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) 2010 - 2015 Group Leader, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, UK 2007 - 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School and M.I.T., Boston, USA 2002 - 2007 PhD Process Engineering, Univ. Magdeburg, DE 1996 - 2001 MSc Chem Engineering, Univ. Oviedo, Spain