Full name: Gunnar Klau
Formal name: Prof.dr. G.W. Klau
Function: Group leader, Scientific Staff Member, Theme coordinator

Email: Gunnar.Klau@cwi.nl
Telephone +31(0)20 592 4012
Room:  M276
Homepage:  http://homepages.cwi.nl/~klau
Research groups:
(MAC4) 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

2012 -	Onderzoeker E MAC4 - Life Sciences
2010 -	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

2008	Outstanding Paper Award ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology), Toronto July 2008.

Selected Academic Activities

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	Member of program committee Saarbrücken, Germany - Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics - [WABI]
2011 -	Member project management committee http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/bmbs/Actions/BM1006
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

S. Boecker, S. Briesemeister, G.W. Klau. Exact algorithms for cluster editing: Evaluation and experiments. Algorithmica 60, 316–334, 2011.

I. Wohlers, F.S. Domingues, G.W. Klau. Towards optimal alignment of protein structure distance matrices. Bioinformatics 26, 2273–2280, 2010.

E. Althaus, G.W. Klau, O. Kohlbacher, H.P. Lenhof, K. Reinert. Integer linear programming in computational biology. , Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5760, 199–218, 2009.

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.

All publications (link to repository)