Full name: Gunnar Klau
Formal name: Prof.dr. G.W. Klau
Function: Group leader, Scientific Staff Member
Email: Gunnar.Klau@cwi.nl
Telephone: +31(0)20 592 4012
Room: M276
Homepage: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~klau
Research groups: Life Sciences
Formal name: Prof.dr. G.W. Klau
Function: Group leader, Scientific Staff Member
Email: Gunnar.Klau@cwi.nl
Telephone: +31(0)20 592 4012
Room: M276
Homepage: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~klau
Research groups: Life Sciences
Research
Gunnar Klau is leader of the group Life Sciences. His research focuses on combinatorial algorithms and mathematical models for the analysis of biological and biomedical data, amongst others, for cancer research.
Career
| 2013 | Group leader LS - Life sciences |
| 2013 - | Theme-coordinator - |
| 2013 - | Scientific staff member LS - Life sciences |
| 2012 - | Extraordinary Professor VU University |
| 2012 - 2013 | Scientific staff member MAC4 - Life Sciences |
| 2010 - 2012 | Group leader MAC4 - Life Sciences |
| 2008 - 2009 | Scientific staff member LS - Life sciences |
| 2004 - 2008 | Member of the DFG Center Matheon, Berlin |
| 2004 - 2008 | Assistant professor Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2002 - 2003 | Postdoc at Zuse Institut Berlin |
| 2001 | Postdoc at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, USA |
| 2001 - 2004 | University assistant at Vienna University of Technology |
| 1997 - 2001 | PhD Computer Science (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Saarbrücken |
Selected Awards and Honours
| 2012 | Article "CSA: Comprehensive comparison of pairwise protein structure alignments" featured article in Nucleic Acids Research 2012 |
| 2008 | Outstanding Paper Award ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology), Toronto July 2008. |
Selected Academic Activities
| 2013 - | Member Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde - [LNMB] |
| 2012 - | Professor by special appointment Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - [VU] - Bioinformatics and Operations Research |
| 2012 - | Faculty member Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre - [NBIC] |
| 2012 - | Area editor Journal: Operations Research Letters - Area Life Sciences and Healthcare |
| 2011 - 2012 | Cluster chair Berlin, Germany - International Symposium on Mathematical Programming - [ISMP] - Cluster co-chair "Life Sciences and Healthcare" |
| 2010 | Member of program committee European Symposium on Algorithms - [ESA] |
| 2010 | Guest editor Journal: ERCIM News - Volume: 82 |
| 2010 - 2011 | Member panel of experts Agence Nationale de la Recherche |
Selected Publications
| C. Staiger, S Cadot, R Kooter, M Dittrich, T Mueller, G.W. Klau, L.F.A. Wessels. A Critical Evaluation of Network and Pathway-Based Classifiers for Outcome Prediction in Breast Cancer. PLoS One, 2012. |
| S. Canzar, M. El-Kebir, R. Pool, K. Elbassioni, A. Malde, A. Mark, D. Geerke, L. Stougie, G.W. Klau. Charge group partitioning in biomolecular simulation. Proceedings of Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology 2012 (16), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7262, 29–43, 2012. |
| S. Boecker, S. Briesemeister, G.W. Klau. Exact algorithms for cluster editing: Evaluation and experiments. Algorithmica 60, 316–334, 2011. |
| G.W. Klau. A new graph-based method for pairwise global network alignment. BMC Bioinformatics 10, 2009. |
| M. Dittrich, G.W. Klau, A. Rosenwald, T. Dandekar, et al. Identifying functional modules in protein-protein interaction networks: An integrated exact approach. Bioinformatics 24, 223–231, 2008. |

