Peer Bork Scientist
Peer Bork is senior group leader and joint head of the Structural and Computational Biology unit at EMBL, a European research organization with headquarters in Heidelberg where he also serves as strategic head of bioinformatics. In addition, he holds an appointment at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. Dr. Bork received his PhD in Biochemistry (1990) and his Habilitation in Theoretical Biophysics (1995). He works in various areas of computational biology and systems analysis with a focus on function prediction, comparative analysis and data integration.Dr. Peer Bork coauthored more than 500 research articles in international, peer-reviewed journals, among them more than 50 in Nature, Science and Cell. According to ISI (analyzing 10 years spans), Dr. Bork was for many years the most cited European researcher in Molecular Biology and Genetics and is among the top 5 in Biochemistry and Biology. He is on the editorial board of a number of journals including Science and PLoS Biology, and functions as senior editor of the journal Molecular Systems Biology. Dr. Bork co-founded five biotech companies, two of which went public. More than 35 of his former associates now hold professorships or other group leader positions in prominent institutions all over the world. He received the "Nature Award for Creative Mentoring" for his achievements in nurturing and stimulating young scientists. He was also the recipient of the prestigious "Royal Society and Academie des Sciences Microsoft Award" for the advancement of science using computational methods and obtained a competitive "ERC advanced investigator grant".
