Curriculum vitæ
- since 2007
- Research associate, BioAI Lab, Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe/Phoenix, USA
- 2006-2007
- Research assistant, Bioinformatics group, Biotechnological Centre (Biotec) of the Technische Universität Dresden
- 2005
- Research visit, European Bioinformatics Institute, Rebholz-Group, Hinxton, UK
"Mining Text for Attributed Relationships" - 2003-2006
- Research assistant, Ph.D. student, Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Thesis: "Mining relations from the biomedical literature" - [Abstract] - 2002
- Diploma thesis: Dept. Theoretical Computer Science, University of Ulm
"A Statistical Approach to Identify Positional Dependencies in Protein Domains" - 2001
- Internship, Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin
"MHC class I antigenic peptide processing predicition" - 1999-2000
- Student assistant, Dept. Distributed Systems, University of Ulm
- 1998-1999
- Student assistant, Dept. Software Engineering and Compiler Design, University of Ulm
- 1996-2002
- Diploma in Computer Science (graduate degree: Dipl. Inf.), University of Ulm
Minor subject: Medical Science
Grants
- German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD
- Scholarship for a research visit, EMBL-EBI/Hinxton, UK, 2005
- Science Foundation Arizona, SFAz
- 2007 Competitive Advantage Award, PI: Chitta Baral
Memberships
- - Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL
- Editorial / advisory boards
- - Section Editor for the Encyclopedia of Systems Biology (Springer), section on "Text mining for Systems Biology"
- Organizing Committee
- - Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Life Science Literature (KDLL 2006) at the PAKDD 2006
- Program Committee
- - 1st Int Conf on Bioinformatics, BIOINFORMATICS 2010
- - ISMB/ECCB09, Text mining track
- - European Conference on Computational Biology, ECCB'08
- - European Workshop on Data Mining and Text Mining for Bioinformatics at the ECML/PKDD 2004
- - ISMB/ECCB09, Text mining track
- Reviewer for
- - ISMB/ECCB 2009
- Bioinformatics
- BMC Bioinformatics
- Nucleic Acids Research
- EMBC'09
- J Comp Sci and Sys Bio
- ECCB 2008
- International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine, LBM 2007
- Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- NETTAB, 2007
- Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration
- International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2006
- International Conference on Genome Informatics, GIW 2005
- International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine, SMBM 2005
- Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, 2005
- European Conference on Machine Learning and European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML/PKDD 2004
- ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics, BIOKDD 2004
- Knowledge Exploration in Life Science Informatics Symposium, KELSI 2004
- European Workshop on Data Mining and Text Mining for Bioinformatics, at ECML/PKDD 2003
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