Peer Bork

Peer Bork is a German bioinformatician.[1] He is head of structural and computational biology at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, in south-west Germany.[2]

Peer Bork
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsComputational biology
InstitutionsEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory
Websiteembl.de

Bork received his PhD in biochemistry in 1990 and his habilitation in theoretical biophysics in 1995. He has worked on the microbiomes of humans and other animals.[1]

He is on the board of editorial reviewers of Science,[3] and is a senior editor of the journal Molecular Systems Biology.[4]

In 2008 Bork received the Nature "mid-career achievement" award for science mentoring in Germany.[5] He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht in 2017.[6]

References
  1. Alison Abbott (8 January 2016). Scientists Bust Myth That Our Bodies Have More Bacteria Than Human Cells. Nature doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19136.
  2. Tanya Lewis (28 April 2016). Transplanted Fecal Microbes Stick Around. The Scientist. Accessed December 2017.
  3. Editors and Editorial Boards. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Accessed December 2017.
  4. Editors & Board. EMBO. Accessed December 2017.
  5. Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science – Germany (2008). Springer Nature. Archived 15 July 2017.
  6. Honory [sic] Doctorate for bioinformatician Peer Bork. Utrecht Bioinformatics Center. Accessed December 2017.

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