!!Thomas Lengauer \\ __Academic Degrees__ \\ * Habilitation (Computer Science), Saarland University (1984) * Ph. D. (Computer Science), Stanford University (1979) * M.Sc. (Computer Science), Stanford University (1977) * Dr.rer.nat. (Mathematics), Free University of Berlin (1976) * Diplom (Mathematics), Free University of Berlin (1975) \\ __Employment__ \\ * Director at the Institute Max-Planck Institute for Informatics (since 2001) * Director at the Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing at GMD (1992-2001) * Professor of Computer Science, University of Bonn (1992-2001) * Professor of Computer Science, University of Paderborn (1984-1992) * Research Assistant, Saarland University (1981-1984) * Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey (1979-1981) \\ __Research Interests__ \\ * computational biology * combinatorial optimization in science and engineering * computational chemistry \\ __Honors and Memberships__ \\ * Hector Science Award (2015) * AIDS Research Award of the Heinz-Ansmann Foundation, together with Rolf Kaiser, and Mark Oette, Cologne (2011) * Member of Academia Europaea (2010) * Member of acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering (since 2007) * Karl Heinz Beckurts Award (2003) * Konrad-Zuse Medal of the German Informatics Society (2003) * Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (since 2003) * Honorary Professor at Bonn University (since 2003) * Honorary Professor at Saarland University (since 2001) * Founding member of the International Society for Computational Biology (since 1998) * Member of the German Informatics Society (since 1984) * Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (since 1977) * Member of the German National Academic Foundation (1972 - 1977)