Burkhard Rost

Burkhard Rost
Burkhard Rost speaking at ISMB
Born	(1961-07-11) July 11, 1961 Germany
Alma mater	University of Heidelberg
Known for	Presidency of ISCB Organisation of ISMB, CASP Predictprotein combination of evolutionary information and machine learning
Spouse	Karima Djabali
Awards	Alexander von Humboldt Professor, ISCB Fellows Award
Scientific career
Fields	Machine learning Evolution Protein structure prediction Protein function prediction Sequence analysis Bioinformatics
Institutions	Technische Universität München (TUM) Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) Columbia University University of Heidelberg European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Thesis	Neural networks and evolution - advanced prediction of protein secondary structure (1994)
Doctoral advisor	Chris Sander

Website	www.rostlab.org

Burkhard Rost is a scientist leading the Department for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Rost chairs the Study Section Bioinformatics Munich involving the TUM and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) in Munich. From 2007-2014 Rost was President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).