Knut Reinert
Knut Reinert (born 19th January 1968) is a German computer scientist and bioinformatician renowned for his contributions to computational biology and algorithm development.[1][2] He is currently a full professor at the Institute of Computer Science at Free University of Berlin, where he leads the Algorithmic Bioinformatics research group.[3]
Early Life and education
[edit]Reinert completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science at the University of the Saarland in 1994.[2] He then pursued his doctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, earning his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1999 under the supervision of Kurt Mehlhorn and Hans-Peter Lenhof.[4][5][6] His doctoral thesis, titled "A Polyhedral Approach to Sequence Alignment Problems", focused on solving NP-hard sequence alignment problems for Proteins and RNA using methods from combinatorial optimization.[7]
Academic career
[edit]After completing his Ph.D., Reinert worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Celera Genomics (Rockville, USA) from 1999 to 2002.[4][5] During this time, he worked in the Informatics Research group under the guidance of Gene Myers[8] on the first whole genome shotgun assemblies of Drosophila melanogaster[9] and Human.[10] Later he also contributed on algorithms for the analysis of mass spectrometry analysis.[11]
In 2002, Reinert joined Free University of Berlin as a professor in the Institute of Computer Science.[5] He established the Algorithmic Bioinformatics research group, which has since become a leading center for bioinformatics research in Germany. Since 2015, his group is partner in the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics within the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure project.[12]
Research
[edit]Reinert's research lies at the intersection of computer science and biology. His work spans several key areas, including algorithms for sequence analysis, processing large-scale sequencing data, and mass spectrometry data analysis.[1][2] Focusing on developing efficient algorithms and data structures for analysing large-scale biological data, he started the development of SeqAn,[13] an open-source C++ software library and co-started the OpenMS[11] project together with Oliver Kohlbacher.
Awards and recognition
[edit]Knut Reinert was appointed a Max-Planck fellow in 2014[14] and was accepted as a member of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ a b https://research.com/u/knut-reinert, accessed 09.04.2025
- ^ a b c https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3078-8129, accessed 09.04.2025
- ^ https://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/en/inf/groups/abi/members/Professors/reinert.html, accessed 08.04.2025
- ^ a b Vita at the Max Planck Institute for molecular genetics, accessed 19.07.2024
- ^ a b c https://idw-online.de/de/news56671, accessed 09.04.29025
- ^ https://zbi-www.bioinf.uni-sb.de/en/lenhof-home/lenhof-people/, accessed 09.04.2025
- ^ K. Reinert, A polyhedral approach to sequence alignment problems. (1999). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-25731
- ^ https://www.nvidia.com/content/cuda/spotlights/knut-reinert-fuberlin.html, accessed 09.04.2025
- ^ Mark D. Adams et al., The Genome Sequence of Drosophila melanogaster. Science287, 2185-2195(2000). DOI:10.1126/science.287.5461.2185
- ^ J. Craig Venter et al., The Sequence of the Human Genome. Science291, 1304-1351(2001). DOI:10.1126/science.1058040
- ^ a b Röst, H., Sachsenberg, T., Aiche, S. et al. OpenMS: a flexible open-source software platform for mass spectrometry data analysis. Nat Methods 13, 741–748 (2016). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3959
- ^ https://www.denbi.de/network/center-for-integrative-bioinformatics-cibi, accessed 09.04.2025
- ^ Döring, A., Weese, D., Rausch, T. et al. SeqAn An efficient, generic C++ library for sequence analysis. BMC Bioinformatics 9, 11 (2008). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-9-11
- ^ Press release Nr. 112/2014 of Free University of Berlin, accessed 19.07.2024
- ^ https://www.studienstiftung.de/