Wolfgang Huber

Wolfgang Huber is a research group leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, where he develops computational methods for new biotechnologies and applies them to biological discovery. He has published over 170 research papers in basic biology, cancer and statistical methods. He is a founding member of the open-source bioinformatics software collaboration Bioconductor and has co-authored the two books on Bioconductor.

Wolfgang studied physics at the University of Freiburg, where he obtained a PhD in theoretical physics in 1998. He moved to California in 1998 to work at IBM Research in San José. In 2000, his interest in cancer led him to do a postdoc at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg. In 2004, he joined EMBL to start a research group at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Cambridge, UK. In 2009, he joined the then newly formed Genome Biology unit of EMBL in Heidelberg. He serves on several advisory boards and is heading or co-heading scientific consortia. You can find more information on his lab’s website: https://www.huber.embl.de