I graduated in Physics (Dipl.-Phys.) at the University of Bochum (Germany) in 1991, and received both my M.Sc. (Information Processing and Neural Networks) and Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics and Neural Computation) degrees from King's College London in 1994 and 1997, respectively.

After working as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Electrical Engineering Department of Imperial College London from 1997 to 1999, I joined Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) as a research scientist in October 1999. My former research interests include theoretical biophysics, statistical pattern recognition, supervised learning in neural networks, and Bayesian approaches to machine learning.

My current research activities are in the field of computational biology and bioinformatics, especially focusing on statistical methods for phylogenetics and the reverse engineering of genetic networks.

Education

1994-1997	King's College London (UK)	Postgraduate (PhD) studies in Applied Mathematics and Neural Computation
1993-1994	King's College London (UK)	Postgraduate (MSc) studies in Information Processing and Neural Networks
1986-1991	University of Bochum (Germany)	Graduate studies ( "Hauptstudium" ) in Physics/Biophysics
1984-1986	University of Duisburg (Germany)	Undergraduate studies ( "Grundstudium" ) in Physics

Degrees

1997	Doctor of Philosophy	(Ph.D.)	King's College London No marks awarded in Britain
1994	Master of Science	(M.Sc.)	King's College London Distinction
1991	Diplom-Physiker	(Dipl.-Phys.)	University of Bochum Distinction ( "mit Auszeichnung" )
1986	Vordiplom in Physik	(Cand. rer. nat.)	University of Duisburg First class honours ( "sehr gut" )

Employment

Since Oct 1999	Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (UK)	Research in bioinformatics and statistical phylogenetics; development of statistical methods and software to detect recombination in DNA sequence alignments; work on projects funded under the SEERAD bioinformatics programme.
Nov 1997 - Sept 1999	Imperial College London (UK)	Postdoctoral research associate. Research in machine learning and neural computation with an application to medical problems. Prediction of KS in AIDS patients with neural networks.
Oct 1989 - Feb 1992	University of Bochum (Germany)	Research assistant. Research in theoretical biophysics, especially molecular dynamics (MD) studies in proteins. Improving the method of thermodynamic integration (TI) to compute the free reaction enthalpy of internal protein reactions.
April 1988 - Oct 1989	University of Bochum (Germany)	Teaching assistant, giving experimental physics laboratory classes to 2nd-year undergraduates.

Personal

1992-1993

I took a year out to write a novel.