Peer Bork | |
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| Born | May 4, 1963 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Leipzig University |
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| Fields | Computational biology |
| Institutions | European Molecular Biology Laboratory |
| Website | embl.de |
Peer Bork (born 4 May 1963 [1] ) is a German bioinformatician. [2] He is Interim Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). [3] Prior to his appointment he served as Director of the EMBL site in Heidelberg, in south-west Germany. [4]
Bork received his PhD in biochemistry in 1990 from the Leipzig University and his habilitation in theoretical biophysics in 1995 from the Humboldt University of Berlin. He was appointed a Group Leader at EMBL in 1995. [5] He has worked on the microbiomes of humans and other animals. [2]
He is on the board of editorial reviewers of Science, [6] and is a senior editor of the journal Molecular Systems Biology . [7]
In 2000, Bork was elected as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, [8] and in 2008 he received the Nature "mid-career achievement" award for science mentoring in Germany. [9] He was appointed a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2014. [5] He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Würzburg [5] in 2014 and Utrecht University in 2017. [10]
In 2021, Bork was awarded the Novozymes Prize "for developing groundbreaking, publicly available and integrative bioinformatic tools" by the Novo Nordisk Foundation [11] . He was also awarded the 2021 International Society for Computational Biology 'Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award' for "tremendous contributions to bioinformatics on a plethora of fronts within the field". [12]
