Martin Vingron#
| Membership Number: | 3849 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.molgen.mpg.de/46535/Martin_Vingron |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000, 10 - present: Director Computational Molecular Biology Department, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
- 1995, 10 - 2000, 09: Head of Division, Div. of Theoretical Bioinformatics, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)
- 1993, 09 - 1995, 09: Postdoc, German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)
- 1991, 07 - 1993, 08: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Southern California, Department of Mathematics
- 1987 - 1991: Predoctoral Fellow, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Biocomputing Programme
Fields of Scholarship
- Computational molecular biology
- Biological sequence analysis
- Transcriptional regulation
- Functional genomics
- Development of algorithms
- Statistical methods for molecular biology
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Elected Fellow of ISCB, The International Society for Computational Biology
- 2004: Max Planck Research Award 2004
- 2004: Elected Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
- 2001: Awarded Honorary Professor, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
- 2000: Director and Scientific Member, Max-Planck-Society
