Kristian Vlahoviček#
| Membership Number: | 6554 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CROATIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.bioinfo.hr |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5705-2464 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Tenured full professor, Bioinformatics group head, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- 2013 - present Exaltum Ltd., owner and founder.
- 2011 - 2016 Full professor, Bioinformatics group head, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- 2009 - 2014 Adjunct Associate Professor, Institute for Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- 2006 - 2011 Associate professor, Bioinformatics group head, Faculty of science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- 2004 - 2006 Staff Research Scientist, Protein Structure and Bioinformatics Group, ICGEB Trieste, Italy. Head: Prof. Sándor Pongor
- 2002 - 2006 Assistant professor, Bioinformatics group head, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- 2001 - 2004 Scientific computing coordinator, Protein Structure and Bioinformatics Group, ICGEB Trieste, Italy. Head: Prof. Sándor Pongor
- 1996 - 2000 Research Fellow, Protein Structure and Bioinformatics Group, ICGEB Trieste, Italy. Head: Prof. Sándor Pongor
- 1996 - 2000 Research and Teaching assistant, Chemistry Division, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Head: Prof. Boris Kamenar
Fields of Scholarship
- Developmental genomics
- Computational biology
- Bioinformatics
- Machine learning in life sciences
- Metagenomics
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Annual National Science Award, Republic of Croatia
- 2009 Annual Science Award, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2006 - 2011 EMBO Young Investigator Installation Grant (EMBO/Croatian National Science Foundation)
- 1996 - 2000 ICGEB Fellowship award (International Centre for Genetic Engineering And Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy)
- 1995 University of Zagreb, Rector’s Award
