Positions: Since 2015 Professor in Computational Systems Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel 2008 – 2015 Associate Professor in Computational Systems Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel Since 2004 Group leader at the SIB | Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 2003 – 2008 Assistant Professor, Biozentrum, University of Basel 2000 – 2003 Fellow at the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA 1999 – 2000 Postdoctoral Researcher, The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA 1995 – 1999 PhD Research at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe NM, USA and at the Theoretical Biology/Bioinformatics department, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Education: 1995 – 1999 PhD, cum laude, Faculty of Biology, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands 1989 – 1995 Doctoral Diplom (M. Sc.) in Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands