Prof. Dr. Sven Rahmann holds the Chair of Algorithmic Bioinformatics at Saarland University and is a member of the Computer Science Department, the Center for Bioinformatics, the Pharma Science Hub and the Saarland Informatics Campus. His research focuses on the development of new algorithms and statistical methods for analyzing DNA/RNA sequence data with applications in medicine, biology and environmental research. He was previously Professor of Genome Informatics at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Professor of Bioinformatics at TU Dortmund University. Prof. Rahmann has a strong network in the international bioinformatics community, was editor of several journals, member of numerous program committees and chairman of the German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB). He is also a board member of the Bioinformatics Division (FaBI).