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CV of Prof. Dr. Torsten Schwede
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2715-335X | |
| Google Scholar | Google Scholar | |
| 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 | |