Management
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Dr. Michael R. Alvers |
Dr. Michael R. Alvers has extensive management experience (8 Years) in technology companies like Definiens AG and interActive Systems GmbH in positions as Director Bioinformatics, Director Product Marketing and Director Business and Product Development. Besides this, he has profound experiences in managing large software projects. He is the initiator and creator of Proteomweaver, an award winning software for biological image analysis. He has overall responsibility for the company's strategic business direction, corporate finances and staffing.
Michael received a masters degree in Geophysics from the Free University of Berlin and holds a Ph.D. in Geophysics. He studied and worked in Berlin, Stanford, Munich and La Plata, Argentina.
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Prof. Dr. Michael Schroeder |
Prof. Dr. Michael Schroeder is a professor in bioinformatics at the Biotechnological Center of TU Dresden and the computer science faculty of TU Dresden. His research is focused on protein interactions derived from protein structures and from the scientific literature using textmining. His group has developed www.gopubmed.com and www.scoppi.org. He has published over 110 peer review articles [January 2007] on his research and manages a number of national and international research projects worth over 2.5M EUR including the EU projects Sealife and REWERSE. He is a member of the W3C's Health Care and Life Science Interest Group. Before moving to Dresden in 2003 he worked for 6 years at City University in London as lecturer and senior lecturer.
Michael holds a PhD from University of Hannover and studied and worked in Karlsruhe, Aachen, London and Lisbon.
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Dr. Liliana Barrio-Alvers |
Dr. Liliana Barrio-Alvers worked for 14 years as a scientist at the University of La Plata, Argentina and for more than 6 years as a professor of Geophysics. In Europe, she moved into computing, computer linguistics and applied techniques used in geophysics for information extraction. In her 6-year industry carrier at companies such as SailLabs AG, Comprendium AG, Definiens AG, the Max-Planck-Institut for Biochemistry in Munich and interActive Systems GmbH, she worked as a research scientist and a specialist in information extraction. At Transinsight she is responsible for the technical coordination between University research and the industrial realization of software on the company side.
Liliana holds a PhD in Geophysics from the University of La Plata, Argentina. The research for this thesis was done at the Freie Universität Berlin under the umbrella of a DAAD fellowship. She studied and worked in Buenos Aires, Munich and Berlin.