1. Thomas Lengauer was born on 12 November 1952 and is a German computer scientist and computational biologist.
15 Facts About Thomas Lengauer
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Thomas Lengauer later gained an MSc and a PhD in computer science, both from Stanford University.
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Thomas Lengauer received his habilitation degree in computer science at Saarland University in 1984.
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In 1984 Thomas Lengauer became Professor of Computer Science at University of Paderborn.
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Thomas Lengauer retired from his position as Director at Max Planck Institute for Informatics in 2018.
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Thomas Lengauer has been the PhD advisor of over 50 students and coauthored over 350 publications.
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Thomas Lengauer was a cofounder of the Conference Series European Symposium on Algorithms and European Symposium on Computational Biology.
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Thomas Lengauer was a member of the steering committee of the International Conference on Research in Computational Biology from its inception in 1997 until 2010.
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Thomas Lengauer is a founding member of the International Society for Computational Biology and in 2014 became Vice President of this Society.
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Thomas Lengauer was elected as a Fellow of the ISCB in 2015.
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From January 2018 to January 2021 Thomas Lengauer was President of the ISCB.
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In 2003, Thomas Lengauer was awarded the Konrad Zuse Medal, the highest award of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik, as well as the Karl-Heinz-Beckurts Award.
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Thomas Lengauer has been a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2003.
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Thomas Lengauer has been a member of acatech, the German Academy of Science and Engineering, since 2007 and of Academia Europaea since 2010.
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Thomas Lengauer's twin brother Christian Thomas Lengauer was a Professor in the Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics at the University of Passau.