Heringa, Jaap Prof. dr.

General info

Street / P.O. Box

De Boelelaan 1081a

Zip code

1081 HV

City

Amsterdam

Country

The Netherlands

E-mail

j.heringa@removethis.few.vu.nl

Phone number(s)

+31 (0)20 5987649

Fax

+31 (0)20 5987653

Website(s)

www.nbic.nl

www.cs.vu.nl/~heringa/

http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/jaa...

Principal Research

Jaap Heringa studied Mathematical Biology, Bioinformatics and Population Genetics at the University of Utrecht, and earned his PhD (Cum Laude) in Bioinformatics from the University of Utrecht in 1993. He has worked in Bioinformatics research for more than 20 years, and has been active in developing Bioinformatics software packages in various areas, with a particular emphasis on novel integrative algorithms for sequence analysis and protein structure/function prediction. He gained industrial experience in software development at IBM’s International Network Development Centre (INSDC, Uithoorn, Netherlands; 1984-88) and has worked at leading scientific labs such as the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (staff researcher 1988-1996) and the MRC National Institute for Medical Research in London (group leader and senior scientist 1996-2002).

Since 2002 he is full professor in Bioinformatics and director of the Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics (IBIVU) at the VU University Amsterdam. Heringa has served as expert evaluator of EC FP5 and FP6 proposals and as external evaluator of EC FP5 and FP6 project mid-term reviews. He has also served on the board of the USA National Institute for Health (NIH) as an evaluator of NIH-NIAID Resource Center proposals. Nationally he served as member of the national NWO/Horizon and NWO Computational Life Sciences committees. Heringa is on the editorial board of the journals Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics and Biology, Computational Biology and Chemistry (CBAC), Current Peptide and Protein Research (CPPS), Evolutionary Biology Online and the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.

As of 2010 he is a Scientific Director of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC).

Projects involved (as projectleader)

• Network-aware homology searching and knowledge-based multiple sequence alignment
• Protein interactions at multiple scales

Projects involved (as participant)

• Protein knowledge building through comparative genomics and data integration

Courses

• Algorithms in Sequence Analysis
• Fundamentals of Bioinformatics
• Comparative genomics: from evolution to function
• Algorithms for biological networks
• Optimisation Techniques in bioinformatics and systems biology

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