Alexander Schönhuth obtained his PhD in applied mathematics from Cologne University, Germany, in 2006. From 2007 until 2009 he was a postdoc at the School of Computing Science of Simon Fraser University. From 2009 until 2010 he was a postdoc at the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2010, he
Biography
Alexander Schönhuth obtained his PhD in applied mathematics from Cologne University, Germany, in 2006. From 2007 until 2009 he was a postdoc at the School of Computing Science of Simon Fraser University. From 2009 until 2010 he was a postdoc at the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2010, he became a research group leader at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he received tenure in 2014. He became a part-time full professor at Utrecht University in 2017, and a full professor at Bielefeld University in Germany in 2020. Alexander specializes in Genome Data Science. He was a member of the Genome of the Netherlands consortium, participating in one of the earliest population-scale sequencing projects. His current interests are the reconstruction of the genomes of pathogens, including viral quasispecies and metagenomes. Alexander is further interested in single cell genomics and the exploitation of genomes using advanced artificial intelligence approaches.