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Research Interests

​My main academic interests are semantic integration, biomedical ontologies, and knowledge-based analysis of data in biology. We develop novel knowledge-based methods for analysis of large, complex and heterogeneous datasets in biology, and apply them to key problems in the domains of biomedicine and biodiversity.

Selected Publications

Education Profile

  • ​Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Germany, 2009
  • Dipl. Inf., University of Leipzig, Germany, 2005.

Professional Profile

  • 2014-now: Assistant Professor, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
  • 2013-2014: Research Fellow, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
  • 2010-2013: Research Associate, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • 2009-2010: Postdoctoral fellow, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
  • 2009: Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
  • 2005-2009: PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany) and University of Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany).

Scientific and Professional Memberships

  • International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB)