{"id":33585,"date":"2017-01-23T13:32:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T12:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.h-its.org\/people\/about-thomas-lengauer\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:07:06","slug":"about-thomas-lengauer","status":"publish","type":"hits-people","link":"https:\/\/www.h-its.org\/de\/people\/about-thomas-lengauer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lengauer, Vorsitz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thomas Lengauer war bis 2018 Direktor am Max-Planck-Instituts f\u00fcr Informatik (MPI-INF) in Saarbr\u00fccken. Er studierte Mathematik an der FU Berlin (Promotion 1976) und Computer Science an der Stanford University in den USA (Promotion 1979). Von 1979 bis 1981 war er bei Bell Labs, New Jersey, besch\u00e4ftigt. Zur\u00fcck in Deutschland habilitierte er sich an der Universit\u00e4t des Saarlandes. 1984 wurde er an der Universit\u00e4t Paderborn zum Professor ernannt. Von 1992 bis 2001 war er Professor an der Universit\u00e4t Bonn und zugleich auch Direktor des Instituts f\u00fcr Algorithmisches und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen bei GMD \u2013 Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik in Sankt Augustin. Seit 2001 ist er Direktor der Arbeitsgruppe \u201eBioinformatik und Angewandte Algorithmik\u201c des MPI-INF. Thomas Lengauers Forschungsinteressen liegen in im Bereich der Bioinformatik mit besonderer Ausrichtung auf krankheitsbezogene Themen. Er erhielt zahlreiche Preise, darunter die Konrad Zuse Medaille und den Karl Heinz Beckurts Preis, und wurde im September 2016 zum k\u00fcnftigen Pr\u00e4sidenten der International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) gew\u00e4hlt. Im September 2025 wurde er Mitglied im Pr\u00e4sidium der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina. 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