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CV of Prof. Dr. Torsten Schwede

ORCID 0000-0003-2715-335X
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Nationality: German, Swiss
Positions: Since 2018 Vice President for Research, University of Basel
Since 2018 Professor for structural bioinformatics, Biozentrum, University of Basel
2016
 –
2019
Director, SPHN Data Coordination Center and BioMedIT project, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
2014
 –
2019
Scientific director, sciCORE center for scientific computing, Universität Basel
2007
 –
2018
Associate professor for structural bioinformatics, Biozentrum, University of Basel
2003
 – 2009
Chairman of the Biozentrum Research Core Program “Computational and System Biology"
Since 2002 Group leader at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
2001
 – 2007 
Assistant professor (tenure track) for structural bioinformatics, Biozentrum, University of Basel
2000
 –
2001
Staff scientist at GSK GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Geneva.
1999
 –
2000
Postdoctoral researcher at GWER GlaxoWellcome Experimental Research, Geneva.
Education: 1995  –
1998
PhD thesis in protein crystallography "X-ray crystallographic structure solution of Histidine Ammonia-Lyase from Pseudomonas putida by multiple isomorphous replacement." In the group of G.E. Schulz, Albert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg i.Br., Germany.
1991
 – 1994
Diploma studies in Chemistry (Biochemistry) at Albert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg i.Br., Germany.
1988
 – 1991
Diploma studies in Chemistry (Biochemistry) at Universität Bayreuth, Germany.
Selected Awards & Honors: 2009 ISI Thomson Reuters selected “SWISS-MODEL: An automated protein homology-modeling server; Nucleic Acids Res 31: 3381-3385 (2003)” as the highest cited Swiss paper during the last 10 years (1999-2009).
2014 In a study “Best of: Schweizer Forschung 2014/15” comparing traditional citations with altmetrics by the SNSF Swiss National Science Foundation, our 2014 Nucleic Acids Research manuscript on SWISS-MODEL achieves rank 6 on traditional impact measure.
Selected Memberships: 2020 – 2021 SPHN Swiss Personalized Health Network, member of the National Advisory Board (chair)
2019 ISMB Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology - Conference Chair ISMB 2019, Basel
2017 – 2019 SPHN Swiss Personalized Health Network, member of the Scientific Expert Board (chair)
2015 – 2016 Member of the ELIXIR board (chair)
Since 2015 RCSB PDB, member of the scientific advisory board
Since 2015 DR3 project, UCSD, member of the scientific advisory board
2013 – 2018 IMI Innovative Medicines Initiative – member of the Scientific Committee
2012 ECCB'12 - European Conference on Computational Biology, conference chair
Since 2011 CASP Community Wide Experiment on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction - member of the organizing committee
2009
 –
2016
Phyre project, Imperial College London, member of the scientific advisory board
2007
 –
2018
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, member of the executive board of directors
2003
 –
2017
[BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference, conference series chair