Curriculum

• Full Professor of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics, School of Biological Sciences, The Westfalian Wilhelms University of Münster, Germany, 2003 - present.
• Guest professor Universite Lyon1, Claude Bernard, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, June 2013 (sabbatical)
• Visiting Scholar EBI, Thornton Group "The Spices", Cambridge, April - July 2009 (sabbatical)
• Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK, 2000-2003
• Project Manager Biochemical Pathways and Databases, EML GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany, 1998-2000
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany, 1996-1998
• Assistant Professor (Univ. Ass.), Institute of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria, 1994-1996
• Summer School in Complex Systems, SantaFe Institute 1993
• PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Biochemistry, University of Vienna, Austria, 1995
• Diploma (equ. to MSc) in Biochemistry, University of Vienna, Austria, 1992
• Studies in Biochemistry, Physics and Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria, 1981-1991

Current Teaching:

• BSc: Bioinformatics 2 (Evolutionary sequence analysis of proteins and RNA), Enzymology, optional module on Molecular Evolution
• MSc: Several specialised courses on molecular evolution and computational biology
• Contact hours: Tuesday 10:30 - 11:30 Room 110.6 (-> contact), please call in advance to secure availability

Research areas:

• Evolvability and evolutionary design of proteins from reconstructed multi-functional ancestors
• Modular evolution of proteins: Dynamics and adaptive benefits of domain rearrangements
• Novel proteins in evolution: origin, modes of stabilisation and functional adaptation
• Regulatory network evolution: Molecular causes and phenotypic consequences for diseases

Unified Research and Publication Profiles (... just marvel how little they match ...)

• This resource
• Faculty
• WWU [CRIS]
• Pubmed
• GoogleScholar
• ResearcherID A-1563-2013
• ResearchGate
• ORCID 0000-0002-1826-3576
• SCOOP US ID 66 0381 8279
• DFG ID is: BO2544/ XX - Y (where X and Y are project specific)
• And my real number

Research Consortia:

• EsCat - Evolutionary Synthetic Biology and Catalysis, EC FP2020 ITN (2016 - 2020)
• MGSE - Münster Graduate School of Evolution (2009 -- ongoing)
• (T)Race back in Space -- Reconstruction of multi-functional ancestral molecular systems for high-throughput evolutionary selection processes, HFSP Research Grant (2013 - 2017)
• SoLong - DFG FOR 2281, Comparative genomics of the molecular basis of ageing in social insects (2015 -- 2018)
• EvoPAD - DFG Graduate Training Group, Benefits and hazards of novel protein coding genes (pending)
• GBR - Leibniz Graduate School on Genomic Biodiversity Research
• Genome projects (leading roles only): i5k Blatella germanica (german cockroach), Cryptotermes secundus (dry wood termite)

Merits and Community Services:

• Two HFSP grants (2006 co-PI, 2013 PI); 
• Member Faculty of 1000,
• Editor in Chief "Bioinformatics and Biology Insights" (since 2009); Assoc. Ed. "Frontiers in Life Sciences", Editor "Trends in Evolution" (2010-2013), "Proc. Royal Soc. Interface" (since 2012), "J. Exp. Zoology" (since 2012), "BMC Evolutionary Biology" (since 2011).
• Member steering commitees: DEMAIN Münster, MGSEI Münster, GBR Bonn

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