Erik Bongcam-Rudloff

Who is Erik Bongcam-Rudloff?

Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is a Chilean-born Swedish biologist and computer scientist. He received his doctorate in medical sciences from Uppsala University in 1994. He is the head of SLU-Global Bioinformatics Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His main research deals with development of bioinformatics solutions for the Life Sciences community.

He was the chairman of EMBnet, a science-based group of collaborating bioinformatics nodes throughout Europe, and a number of nodes outside Europe. He is also the director of eBioinformatics.org which created eBiotools, eBioKit, eBioX and eBioKit.

Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is also executive board member of:

ISCB, The International Society for Computational Biology

SeqAhead, Chairman of the European COST Action: Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Network

ALLBIO, Broadening the Bioinformatics Infrastructure to unicellular, animal, and plant science. ALLBIO is a FP7 project, KBBE.2011.3.6-02: Supporting the development of Bioinformatics Infrastructures for the effective exploitation of genomic data: Beyond health applications.

EMBRACE, European Model for Bioinformatics Research and Community Education