SCHLIEPLAB - Key Persons


Aleksandra Khatova

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  • Doctoral Student ( since 2023 )

Alexander Riemer

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  • Events
  • Student

Alexander Schliep

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  • Head
  • Chairman of Medical Bioinformatics
  • Events
Since October 2022 Alexander Schliep is the chair for Medical Bioinformatics with a focus on patient data acquisition at the Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg at Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, with a secondary appointment at the University of Gothenburg. Alexander Schliep received a MS in Mathematics while a Fulbright scholar at the University of Delaware working with Felix Lazebnik in extremal graph theory and a PhD degree in computer science from the Center for Applied Computer Science (ZAIK/ZPR) at the Universität zu Köln, Germany (2001; advisor Rainer Schrader), in collaboration with David C. Torney in the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group (T-10) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. From 2002-2009 he was the group leader of the Bioinformatics Algorithms Group in the Department for Computational Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. From 2009-2016 he was an associate professor Rutgers University with a joint position in the Department of Computer Science and the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology. In 2016 he joined the University of Gothenburg in the department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), which is jointly between Chalmers Technical University and University of Gothenburg. He is a former NIH-funded PI, member of the WASP (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program) research collegium and serves as an associate editor for BMC Bioinformatics and PeerJ as well as a regular PC member of top-level bioinformatics conferences.

Alice Paul

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  • Events
  • Undergraduate Student

Andrea Weisse

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  • Events
  • Student

Arnaud Moulis

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  • Student

Ben Rich

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  • Research Assistant
  • Events

Benjamin Georgi

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  • Events
  • Now: Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
Benjamin Georgi reveived his M. Sc. in Bioinformatics in 2005 at the Freie Universität of Berlin. From 2005-July 2009 he was a doctoral student in the algorithmics group of the MPI for Molecular Genetics. His dissertation work was concerned with cluster analysis of heterogeneous biological data using context-specific independence mixture models.

Björn Hedström

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  • Student

Calle Ekdahl

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  • Research Assistant ( 2017 - 2018 )

Carolyn Keenan

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  • Events
  • Undergraduate Student

Christoph Hafemeister

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  • Research Assistant

Daniel Z Kaplan

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  • Research Assistant

Edvin Listo Zec

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  • Student

Eric J Brugel

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  • Research Assistant ( 2013 - 2015 )

Erik Norlander

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  • Student

Gabriel Alpsten

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  • Student

Harindar Keer

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  • Events

Ivan G Costa

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  • Now Professor for Computational Biology, Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research ( IZKF ) Aachen, University Hospital Aachen

Ivani de Oliveira Negrão Lopes

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  • Events
Ivani was a visitor for two years doing on research towards her PhD at with André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho at University of Sāo Paulo.

Ivar Josefsson

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  • Student

Jan Qvick

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  • Student

Janne Grunau

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  • Research Assistant
  • Events
I am a bioinformatics student at Free University Berlin.

Jian Li

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  • Events
  • Student

Joel Gustafsson

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  • Doctoral Student ( since 2019 )
  • Doctoral Student / Department of Infectious Diseases
Joel Gustafsson has a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Chalmers University of Technology. He is currently a PhD student in Virology at the Sahlgrenska Academy jointly supervised with Peter Norberg. Joel is funded by a joint FORMAS proposal between Peter Norberg and A.S.

John Martinsson

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  • Research Assistant
  • Events

John Wiedenhoeft


Jonas Heise

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  • Research Assistant
  • Events

Jonathan Shao

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  • Events

Katalin Ferenc

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  • Student

Katharina Mansfeld

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  • Administrator
  • Events

Lennart Opitz

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  • Events
  • Student

Luca Bello

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  • Student

Marcilio C. Pereira de Souto

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  • Events
I'm a lecturer in the Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics of Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte at Natal, Brazil. Currently, I am in a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetic, Berlin, Germany. I worked also as a research at the Computational Intelligence Laboratory of University of São Paulo at São Carlos and as a visiting lecturer in the Centre of Informatics of Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife. I studied for a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Imperial College, London, UK.

Marco Rügen

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  • Student

Martinsson. Bird Species

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  • Identification Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Master 's Thesis, Chalmers University of Technology, Jul 2017

Matthew R. Mitsui

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  • Events
  • Undergraduate Student

Matthias Heinig

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  • Events
  • Student

Michael Seifert

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  • Events
  • Student

Michael Turewicz

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  • Student

Natalia Jurczynska

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  • Student

Nathalie Gocht

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  • Doctoral Student
  • Doctoral Student ( since 2023 )

Paul Piwowarczyk

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  • Student

Rajat S Roy

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  • in Computer Science, Rutgers, July 2014

Scott Merkling

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  • Research Assistant

Sebastian Norlin

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  • Student

Sharan Sabi

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  • Student

Shirin Tavara

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  • Postdoctoral Scientist ( since 2017 )

Simon Johansson

Job Titles:
  • Doctoral Student ( since 2019 )

Simon Persson

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  • Student

Sören Richard Stahlschmidt

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  • Student

Theresa Lye

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  • Undergraduate Student

Tobias Johansson