Bork is the Head of Unit, Senior Scientist and Strategic Head of Bioinformatics and he holds an appointment at the Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. Bork received his PhD in Biochemistry (1990) and his Habilitation in Theoretical Biophysics (1995). He works in various areas of computational biology and systems analysis with a focus on function prediction, comparative analysis and data integration.
Dr. Bork coauthored 550 research articles in international, peer-reviewed journals, among them more than 70 in Nature, Science and Cell. According to ISI (analyzing 10 years spans), Dr. Bork was for many years the most cited European researcher in Molecular Biology and Genetics and is among the top 5 in Biochemistry and Biology. He has served on the editorial board of a number of journals including Science and PLoS Biology, and functions as senior editor of the journal Molecular Systems Biology. Dr. Bork co-founded five successful biotech companies, two of which went public. More than 35 of his former associates now hold professorships or other group leader positions in prominent institutions all over the world. He received the Nature Award for Creative Thinkingfor his achievements in nurturing and stimulating young scientists. He was also the recipient of the prestigious "Royal Society and Academie des Sciences Microsoft Award" for the advancement of science using computational methods and obtained 2 competitive "ERC advanced investigator grants".
