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German bioinformatician (born 1963)

Peer Bork
Born (1963-05-04) May 4, 1963 (age 61)
Nationality German
Alma mater Leipzig University
Scientific career
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]

  1. ^ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b Abbott, Alison (8 January 2016). "Scientists bust myth that our bodies have more bacteria than human cells". Nature. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19136. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 190879263.
  3. ^ EMBL Website (10 March 2025). "Changes in EMBL leadership". EMBL. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
  4. ^ [1] Accessed May 2021.
  5. ^ a b c [2]. Leopoldina. Accessed May 2021.
  6. ^ Editors and Editorial Boards. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Accessed December 2017.
  7. ^ Editors & Board. EMBO. Accessed December 2017.
  8. ^ [3]. EMBO. Accessed May 2020.
  9. ^ Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science – Germany (2008). Springer Nature. Archived 15 July 2017.
  10. ^ Honory [sic] Doctorate for bioinformatician Peer Bork. Utrecht Bioinformatics Center. Accessed December 2017.
  11. ^ [4]. Novo Nordisk. Accessed May 2021.
  12. ^ [5]. ISCB. Accessed May 2021.