Ralf M. Zimmer

Ralf obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Kiel University. At the German National Research Centre for Information Technology he headed the research group on Algorithmic Structural Genomics. His research interests range from protein sequence analysis, structure prediction, alignments and phylogenies, expression data analysis, metabolic to regulatory networks. Ralf stayed at the National Cancer Institute (NCI/NIH, Washington, DC), and at Stanford University (CA) for research sabbaticals. In 2001, he became Full Professor for Practical Informatics and Bioinformatics at the LMU Munich.