Burkhard Rost

Burkhard Rost
Burkhard Rost speaking
Born	(1961-07-11) July 11, 1961 (age 55) Germany
Fields	Machine learning Evolution Protein structure prediction Protein function prediction Sequence analysis Bioinformatics
Institutions	Technische Universität München (TUM) Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LUM) Columbia University University of Heidelberg European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Alma mater	University of Heidelberg
Thesis	Neural networks and evolution - advanced prediction of protein secondary structure (1994)
Doctoral advisor	Chris Sander
Doctoral students	Yana Bromberg Jinfeng Liu Yana Ofran Avner Schlessinger
Known for	Presidency of ISCB Organisation of ISMB, CASP Predictprotein combination of evolutionary information and machine learning
Notable awards	Alexander von Humboldt Professor, ISCB Fellows Award
Spouse	Karima Djabali
Website www.rostlab.org

Burkhard Rost is a scientist leading the Department for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Rost chairs the Study Section Bioinformatics Munich involving the TUM and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) in Munich. From 2007-2014 Rost was President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

Rost originally started his scientific career as theoretical physicist. After studying physics at the University of Giessen and physics, history, philosophy, and psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Rost received his PhD at the University Heidelberg for his work at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in 1994. Following research internships at EMBL and the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge (UK), in 1998, he became assistant professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics in the College of Surgeons and Physicians of the CU Medical Center of Columbia University in the City of New York. In 2000, he became associate professor at Columbia University and in 2009 he accepted an appointment to the Chair of Bioinformatics at the Technical University of Munich. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and has been President of ISCB, the International Society for Computational Biology from 2007-2014. As of 2011^[update], Rost has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific publications with an Google-Scholar h-index of 79.