Søren Brunak

Professor, Center Director

Centre for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark
brunak(at)cbs.dtu.dk

 

 

 

Personal

Born 1958, 4 children, living with Pernelle Fagerlund in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Area of expertise / research career

1999-: Full professor of Bioinformatics, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark.

1997-1998: Associate professor, Dept. of Biotechnology, Technical University of Denmark.

1993-: Center director, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, (93-97 at the Dept. of Chemistry).

1990-1993: Senior researcher, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark.

1987-1990: Research associate at Dept. of Structural Properties of Materials, Technical University of Denmark.

Research area

Bioinformatics and integrative systems biology. Main thesis advisor of 18 Master theses, 19 PhD theses (plus 9 on-going). Have obtained grant support as PI at the level of 130 Mkr. Main sources: National Danish Research Foundation, Danish Research Councils, Danish Center for Scientific Computing, EU, NIH. Member of several Scientific Advisory Boards for private companies as well as public research institutions.

Education

1987: M.Sc. in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

1991: Ph.D. in Computational Biology, Department of Structural Properties of Materials, Technical University of Denmark.

2002: Dr.phil. (honoris causa), Natural Science Faculty, Stockholm University.

Positions of trust

1993-: Member: Danish Academy for the Natural Sciences (DNA).

1997-2003: Board of directors BioCentrum-DTU.

1998: Bjerrum-Brøndsted-Lang Award from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

2000-: Board of directors, Selskabet for Naturlærens Udbredelse.

2000-: Nordic Bioinformatics Network Program Board.

2001-2004: Board of directors, International Society for Computational Biology.

2001-: Member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences.

2002: Dir. Ib Henriksens Price for Outstanding Science Achievement.

2004-: Member: Danish Royal Society of Science and Letters.

2006: Villum Kann Rasmussen Price for Research within the Natural and Technical Sciences.

Publications

Published more than 130 papers with peer-review, 4 books, 3 proceedings and edited books. Most cited paper has more than 3,000 citations. Fifteen papers with more 100 citations. Several papers have been on the Institute for Scientific Information Red Hot List, most recently in January 2006, where a paper appeared as the most cited paper within all of biology receiving around one citation per day in the period (Bendtsen et al., J. Mol. Biol. 340, 783-795, 2004), now at more than 450 citations. Most recent high-impact publications: “Dynamic protein complex formation during the cell cycle”, de Lichtenberg, Jensen, Brunak and Bork, Science, 307, 724-727, 2005. “Co-evolution of transcriptional and posttranslational cell cycle regulation”, Jensen, Jensen, de Lichtenberg, Brunak and Bork, Nature to appear 2006.