Martin Vingron

Vingron works on various aspects of computational molecular biology. After several years in the fields of biological sequence analysis, sequence comparison, and molecular evolution, he turned to questions of data analysis in functional genomics, in particular gene expression data. Currently Vingron works on unifying the two aspects, sequence analysis and functional genomics, for the purpose of studying gene regulation. Vingron develops and applies both algorithmic and statistical techniques to the questions of molecular biology and of genome research. 

In 2004 Vingron was awarded the Max-Planck-Research Award in Bioinformatics (together with Gene Myers). He is an elected member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, and in 2012 was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology. Since 2014 he is listed among the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers. Besides membership in several scientific advisory boards, he is Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology RECOMB.