Alice Carolyn McHardy obtained her Ph.D. in bioinformatics from Bielefeld University in 2004. From 2005 to 2007, she was a postdoc and then permanent staff member in the Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, USA. She then founded the independent research group for “Computational Genomics and Epidemiology”
Biography
Alice Carolyn McHardy obtained her Ph.D. in bioinformatics from Bielefeld University in 2004. From 2005 to 2007, she was a postdoc and then permanent staff member in the Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, USA. She then founded the independent research group for “Computational Genomics and Epidemiology” at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany. In 2010, she became a full professor for Algorithmic Bioinformatics at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. Since 2014, she leads the “Computational Biology for Infection Research” Lab at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Brunswick, Germany and is a full professor at Technical University of Brunswick. Together with colleagues, in 2014 she founded CAMI, the Initiative for the Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation, which is a community initiative aiming for the comprehensive and unbiased assessment of metagenomics software. CAMI is open for all interested scientists to join.