Rolf Backofen
Member Of Scientific Board at ELIXIR
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolRolf Backofen is a distinguished bioinformatics professor and research leader based in Freiburg, Germany, with over two decades of academic leadership spanning full professorships, institute directorship, and faculty dean roles. Trained at Saarland and LMU, he combines deep theoretical expertise in constraint programming and molecular structure prediction with practical contributions to RNA motif detection, splice-form prediction, and regulatory sequence analysis. As a member of the ELIXIR Scientific Board since 2019 he helps steer European bioinformatics infrastructure, reflecting a rare blend of hands‑on algorithmic research and science policy influence. Coauthor of a foundational textbook in computational molecular biology, he is known for probing protein energy landscapes—an approach that links simplified computational models to biologically relevant insights.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichDr. rer. nat., Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat., Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
English, German
Github Skills (1)
data-structures8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
BackofenLab/AlgoDat
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
Algorithm & Data structures
Contributions:113 commits, 65 pushes in 2 years 4 months
data-structures
rolfbackofen/RNA-RNA-kinetics
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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