Alexander Schliep

Since October 2022 Alexander Schliep is the chair for Medical Bioinformatics with a focus on patient data acquisition at the Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg at Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg.

Alexander Schliep received a MS in Mathematics while a Fulbright scholar at the University of Delaware working with Felix Lazebnik in extremal graph theory and a PhD degree in computer science from the Center for Applied Computer Science (ZAIK/ZPR) at the Universität zu Köln, Germany (2001; advisor Rainer Schrader), in collaboration with David C. Torney in the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group (T-10) at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

From 2002-2009 he was the group leader of the Bioinformatics Algorithms Group in the Department for Computational Molecular Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. From 2009-2016 he was an associate professor Rutgers University with a joint position in the Department of Computer Science and the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology. In 2016 he joined the University of Gothenburg where he held a position until February 2025 in the department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), which is jointly between Chalmers Technical University and University of Gothenburg.

He is a former NIH-funded PI, member of the WASP (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program) research collegium and serves as an associate editor for BMC Bioinformatics and PeerJ as well as a regular PC member of top-level bioinformatics conferences.

Further information can be found at his Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=djKBKswAAAAJ or the Orcid Profile 0000-0002-3555-3188.