Peer Bork#
| Membership Number: | 4807 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bork.embl.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- Nov. 2011 Strategic head of bioinformatics at EMBL HD, coordinating all bioinformatics activities at EMBL-HD
- July 2001 Head of Structural and Computational Biology Unit, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (curr. with C. Müller)
- Jun. 1999 Senior scientist , EMBL, Heidelberg
- Jun 1995 Group leader, EMBL, Heidelberg
- May 1992 - May 1995 Visiting scientist, EMBL, Heidelberg
- Jun. 1995 Visiting group leader at the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
- May 1992 - May 1995 Project leader, at the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
- Apr. 1990 - Apr. 1992 Scientist at the Central Institute of Molecular Biology, Dept. of Bioinform., Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Systems Biology
- Microbiomics
- Molecular Evolution
- Comparative (Meta)Genomics
Honours and Awards
- 1995 DFG Hess award to build a research group
- 1998 FEBS anniversary prize of the GBM
- 1999 “Dozentenstipendium” of the Fonds of the Chem. Industry
- 2000 Award of the Academy of Sciences Berlin/Brandenburg
- 2000 Elected EMBO member
- 2008 Nature Award for Creative Mentoring (Laudatio by German Research Minister)
- 2009 Royal Society and Academie des Sciences Microsoft Award
- 2011 ERC advanced research grant on human cancerbiome
- 2014 Elected Leopoldina member (German Acad. of Sciences)
- 2014 Honorary professorship, Univ. Würzburg, Germany
- 2014 Dr Tissier’s medal of the Bifidus foundation (Japan)
- 2015 ERC advanced research grant on human microbiome at strain resolution
- 2016 Felix Burda award for colon cancer research
- 2017 Honorary doctorate, Univ. Utrecht (Netherlands)
- 2018 Honorary professorship Fudan Univ. Shanghai (China)
- 2018 Heinz P.R. Seeliger award
