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Present

• Member of the Presidential Board of Leopoldina
• Co-Chair of the Joint Committee on the Handling of Security-Relevant Research
• Member of the Selection Committee for the Allocation of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
• Member of the University Council of the University of Regensburg
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Einstein Foundation, Berlin
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) (Chair since 2023)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) at Bielefeld University
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS), Saarbrücken
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (Speaker since 2019)
• Co-Editor in Chief Bioinformatics Advances

Previous

• President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) (2018-2020)
• Vice President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) (1999-200, 2011-2013, 2014-2017)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) (1997-2002, 2005-2017)
• Chairman of the Class of "Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Engineering" of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2013-2016)
• Speaker of the Standing Committee of Leopoldina on Digitized Society (2014-2022)
• Senator and Chairman of the Section on Information Sciences of Leopoldina (2006-2015)
• Member of the Steering Committee of the European Conference for Computational Biology (ECCB) (2002-2011, Chair until 2005)
• Member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) (1995-2010)
• Conference Chair of the 15th Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the sixth European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2007)
• Coordinator of the DFG Priority Program Informatics Methods for the Analysis and Interpretation of Large Genomic Datasets (2000-2003)
• Coordinator of the Helmholtz Network for Bioinformatics (HNB) (2000-2003)
• Program Chair of the First European Conference in Computational Biology (ECCB 2002)
• 1993-2013 Member of the Dechema Board on Bioinformatics (Speaker since 2006)
• Co-Organizer fo Dagstuhl Seminars on Computational Biology (1992, 1995, 2000, 2002)
• Program Chair of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Biology (RECOMB 2001)
• Program Chair of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 1999)
• Organizer and Program Chair of the First European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 1993)
• Co-Organizer of the Sixth Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (STACS 89)
• Co-Organizer of the 13th Symposium on Operations Research (SOR 88)
• Editor of:
  • PLOS Computational Biology (2007-2019, Deputy Editor Methods since 2013)
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2004-2015)
  • BMC Genomics (2011-2013)
  • Bioinformatics (1996-2012)
  • Comparative and Functional Genomics (2000-2007)
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics (1989-2007)
  • Information Processing Letters (1985-1999)
  • Informatik Spektrum (1987-1994)
  • Journal of Computational Biology (1997-2013)
  • Journal of the ACM (1991-2006) (Area Editor: Computing in Technology and in the Sciences)
  • Theory of Computing Systems (1989-2000)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of Heinz-Nixdorf Institute, Paderborn (2002-2011)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (2005-2012)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Plant Genome Initiative GABI (1999-2006)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Scuola Galileo Galilei, Pisa (2002-2005)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Network Gensensorik, Bremen (1999-2001)
• Member of the Scientific Directorate of IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl (1990-2001)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB) (2004-2009)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) 1997-2002
• Vice President of the International Society of Computational Biology (1999-2000 and 2011-2012)
• Coordinator of the DFG Priority Program Efficient Algorithms for Discrete Problems and Their Applications (1995-2000)
• Member of the Board of Directors of the ISMB Conference Series (1995-2000)
• Member of the Steering Board of the ESA Conference Series (1994-1995)
• Vice President of the German Informatics Society (1994-1995)