Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulf Leser
Head of Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics
Institute for Computer Science
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Rudower Chaussee 25
12489 Berlin
Tel: +49 30 2093 3902
Fax: +49 30 2093 5484
E-Mail: leser(at)informatik.hu-berlin.de
https://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/de/forschung/gebiete/wbi
University Education
- 1995 Diploma in Computer Science, TU München (with distinction)
- 2000 Ph.D. (Dr. Ing.), TU Berlin (with distinction)
Professional Experience (selection)
- 1995-1997 Database developer, MPI-MG
- 1997-2000 Graduate School for Distributed Information Systems, TU Berlin
- 2000-2003 Project Manager, PSI AG
- 2003- Professor, HU Berlin
- 03/2009-09/2009 Paternal leave (50%)
- 02/2006-08/2006 Paternal leave
- 2010 Guest professor, Université Paris Sud, France
Research Fields
- i) Main field: Knowledge management in bioinformatics
- ii) Other fields: Databases, data mining, data integration
- iii) Current research interest: Biomedical databases, analyses of high-throughout data sets
Most important Awards, Grants or Scientific Achievements
- 2000 Dissertation Award of the Institute for Communication Systems, TU Berlin
- 1998 EMBO fellowship (research stay in Cambridge, UK)
Selected References
- Seitz, V., Thomas, P.E., Zimmermann, K., Paul, U., Ehlers, A.,…, Leser, U., Stein, H., Hummel, M. (2011) "Classical Hodgkin's lymphoma shows epigenetic features of abortive plasma cell differentiation." Haematologica 96, 863.
- Tikk, D., Thomas, P., Palaga, P., Hakenberg, J., and Leser, U. (2010) "A comprehensive benchmark of kernel methods to extract protein-protein interactions from literature." PLoS Comput Biol 6, e1000837.
- Groth, P., Weiss, B., Pohlenz, H. D., and Leser, U. (2008) "Mining phenotypes for gene function prediction." BMC Bioinformatics 9, 136.