Studies in chemistry and biology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Awards & Grants
2010/2012
EMBO long-term fellowship (ALTF 651-2009) to host Dr. J. Baussand
2008/2009
European Science Foundation grant of the programme “Frontiers in Functional Genomics” to host Dr. J. Baussand
2008-2010
EU project ProtFlexPred (Proposal N° 220256) of the programme “Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowships for Career development” (Call identifier: PEOPLE-2007-2-1-IEF) to host Dr. A. Pandini
2007/2008
European Science Foundation grant of the programme “Frontiers in Functional Genomics” to host Dr. A. Pandini
2004
JSPS Invitation Fellowship (6 weeks) for collaborative research at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC), Tokyo with Dr. M. Ota; GRID application of fast protein folding simulations
1995-1997
Research grant (2 years) ‘Synthesis of Phosphorylated Insulins’ from German Research Ministry (DFG)
1992-1995
PhD stipend (4 years) of the Land Nordrhine Westphalia for outstanding students
Talks, Lectures & Conferences
02.06.2017
Keystone Conference ‘Single Cell Omics’, Stockholm, Sweden; ‘Creating a transcriptomics landscape of the Enteric Nervous System’
08.07.2016
ISMB Conference, Orlando, U.S.A.; ‘Implicit Solvent Parametrisation by Force Matching’
11.03.2014
Crick Symposium on Quantitative Biology; ‘Signal Transduction in Protein Structures’
20.11.2013
BOKU University Wien, Austria; ‘Signal Transduction in Protein Structures’
15.10.2012
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; ‘Functional Analysis of Proteins via Structural Alphabets’
05-06.2011
Guest professorship at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland; Group of Prof. W.F. van Gunsteren (computer-aided chemistry)
05.2010
German Research School for Simulation Sciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany; Course ‘Introduction to Bioinformatics’, Group of Prof. P. Carloni, 10 lectures and 3 tutorials
05.2009
SISSA International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy; Course ‘Introduction to Bioinformatics’, Group of Prof. P. Carloni, 10 lectures and 3 tutorials
03.2009
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K.; ‘Algorithmic Approaches for Protein Structure Analysis and Design’
11.2008
King’s College, London, U.K.; ‘Alignment Methods for Protein Modelling and Design’
09.2008
University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy; ‘Principles of Biological Sequence Alignment’
06.2005
Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy; ‘Unified Sequence and Structure Alignment’
02.2005
Zentrum für Bioinformatik, Hamburg, Germany; ‘Unified Sequence and Structure Alignment’
02.2005
CEINGE Institute, Napoli, Italy; ‘Flexible Sequence and Structure Alignment Using Constraints’
01.2005
Groningen Bioinformatics Centre, Groningen, Netherlands; ‘Flexible Sequence and Structure Alignment Using Constraints’