Prof. Dr. Ulf Leser Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics Telephone: ++49 (0) 30 2093 3902 Fax:          ++49 (0) 30 2093 5484 Mail:          leser(at)informatik.hu-berlin.de Visiting address Institute for Computer Science Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Rudower Chaussee 25 12489 Berlin Mail address Institute for Computer Science Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Unter den Linden 6 10099 Berlin

Research

Teaching

Publications (2003-current)

Publications (1996-2002)

Curriculum Vitae

• Diploma in Computer Science at the Technische Universität München, 1995
• Database developer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, 1995-1997
• Ph.D. on "Query Planning in Mediator-based Information Systems" at the Technical University Berlin and the Graduate School for "Distributed Information Systems", 1997-2000
• Project manager at PSI AG, 2000-2002
• Professor for Knowledge Management in Bioinformatics, 2002 - now
  

Memberships

• Board member of the Center for Biophysics and Bioinformatics at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin
  
• Member of the International Society for Computational Biology
• Member of the  German Gesellschaft für Informatik
  

Professional activities

• Reviewer for Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), Nature Reviews Genetics, Trends in Biotechnology, Genome Biology, IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCCB), Journal on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB), OMICS, BMC Systems Biology, Journal on Biomedical Semantics, BMC Cancer, Drug Discovery Today, Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems, FEBS Journal, Integrative Biology, PLOS Computational Biology (Plos-CB), Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems (BAMS), BMC Genomics, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB)
• Reviewer for SIGMOD Record, VLDB Journal, Web Semantics Journal, Information Systems, Journal of Cooperative information Systems (IJCIS), ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Journal of Web Semantics (JWS), IT-Forschung und Entwicklung, GIS-Science, Journal of Data Semantics
• Reviewer for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Schweizer Nationalfonds (SNF), German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research (GIF), Dutch Science Council (DSC), Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation (AvH), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Volkswagen-Stiftung
• ASIIN Fachgutachter for accreditation of computer science study programs
• Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Biomedical Semantics and the Journal on Data Semantics .
• Programm committee member of (as of 2005)
  • ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2005
  • Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Science (DILS) 2005
  • Workshop on Data and Information Quality (DIQ) 2005
  • Semantic Mining in Biomedicine (SMDB) 2005
  • Computational Life Sciences (CompLife) 2005
  • Inf. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2006
  • Int. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT). PhD Workshop 2006
  • World-Wide-Web conference (WWW) 2006
  • 3rd Int. Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Science (DILS) 2006 (Chair)
  • Workshop on Integrative Bioinformatics (IB) 2006
  • European Conference on Machine Learning & Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD), 2006
  • Inf. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2007
  • Int. Conf. on Databases and Expert Systems (DEXA) 2007
  • ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Data Mining Track 2007
  • Workshop on Biological Data Management (BIDM) 2007
  • Workshop on Network Tools and Applications in Biology (NETTAB) 2007
  • 4th Int. Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Science (DILS) 2007
  • Workshop on Integrative Bioinformatics (IB) 2007
  • ECML/PKDD 2007
  • CompLife 2007
  • ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Data Mining Track 2008
  • ACM SIGMOD Conference on the Management of Data, 2008
  • Workshop on Information Integration Methods, Architectures, and Systems (IIMAS) 2008 (co-chair)
  • Int. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT). PhD Workshop 2008
  • Workshop on Integrative Bioinformatics (IB) 2008
  • 5th Int. Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Science (DILS) 2008, Evry, France
  • German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB) 2008, Dresden
  • Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008
  • ACM SIGMOD Conference on the Management of Data, 2009
  • Workshop on Semantic Web, Datenbanken & Corporate Semantic Web (CSWDB-08), Berlin
  • German Database Conference BTW 2009
  • Extending Database Technology for Life Sciences (EDTLS 2009)
  • HealthGrid Conference 2009
  • 6th Int. Workshop on Data Integration for the Life Science (DILS) 2009, Manchester, UK
  • Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2009 (Selected as 1 of 20 best reviewers)
  • 3rd ACM Workshop an Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics (DTMBIO) 2009
  • Int. Conf. on Scientific and Statistical Databases (SSDBM) 2010, Heidelberg, Germany
  • Conf. on Very Large Databases (VLDB) 2010, Singapore
  • 7th Int. Conference on Data Integration for the Life Science (DILS) 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • German Database Conference BTW 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany
  • First International Workshop on Querying Graph Structured Data , 2010, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • 4th ACM Workshop an Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics (DTMBIO) 2010
  • Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation (CaRR 2011)
  • Int. Conf. on Scientific and Statistical Databases (SSDBM) 2011, Portland, USA
  • Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2011
  • Workshop an Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics (DTMBIO) 2011
  • Workshop on Mining Complex Entities from Network and Biomedical Data (MIND) 2011
  • Int. Conf. on Scientific and Statistical Databases (SSDBM) 2012, Crete, Greece
  • Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation (CaRR) 2012
  • German Database Conference BTW 2013, Magdeburg, Germany (BTW)
  • 8th Int. Conference on Data Integration for the Life Science (DILS) 2012, Maryland, US
  • Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in Medical Informatics (SIMI)2012
  • European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) 2012
  • Int. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2013
  • ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM-BCB) 2012
  • Workshop on Network Tools and Applications in Biology (NETTAB) 2012
  • Int. Workshop on Querying Graph Structured Data (GraphQ) 2013
  • 2nd International Workshop on Web of Linked Entities (WoLe) 2013
  • 1st International Workshop on Benchmarking RDF Systems (BeRSys) 2013

Last Change: 09/2010