Martin Vingron

Martin Vingron obtained a PhD in mathematics from Heidelberg University for work done at EMBL, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. After two postdocs he became a group leader at the German Cencer Research Center, and since 2000 he has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, where he heads the Computational Biology Department. His research focuses on the development of computational and statistical methods for the study of gene regulation and epigenetics.