Søren Brunak, Professor

Scientific director for the section on Metagenomic Systems Biology.

Professional Experience

• 1982-1984: Administrative head, Company Andersen & Simonsen
• 1987-1990: Research associate at Dept. of Structural Properties of Materials, Technical
  University of Denmark, Denmark
• 1990-1993: Senior researcher, Dept. of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• 1993- Center Director, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, (1993-1997 at the Dept. of Chemistry), Denmark
• 1997-1998: Associate Professor, Dept. of Biotechnology, Technical University of Denmark
• 1999-: Professor of Bioinformatics, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• 2007-: Professor of Disease Systems Biology, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Awards and Honors

Professor Brunak is a member of the Danish Academy for the Natural Sciences since 1997, member of the Board of directors of the International Society for Computational Biology since 2001, of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences since 2002, and of the Danish Royal Society of Science and Letters since 2004. Among his many honors, Professor Brunak received the Grundfos Prize for crucial and ground breaking research within systems biology and bioinformatics.

Publication Summary

Professor Brunak has published more than 170 peer-reviewed articles. His papers are highly cited with more than 16,500 ISI paper citations, currently receiving more than 2,000 citations per year. His most cited paper (from 1997) has more than 3,750 citations. His papers have four times been on the Institute for Scientific Information Red Hot List of the ten most cited publications within biology in specific periods. Professor Brunak’s h-factor is currently 52.

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