RESEARCH
His research and teaching range from developing bioinformatics to artificial intelligence technologies for life sciences and medical research. His research team targets fundamental genomics, such as the dynamical regulatory architecture of cells, with special reference to causality and foundational machine learning for AI and the understanding of the Brain. The translational work includes cancer (melanoma, breast cancer) and neurodegenerative diseases (multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, frontal dementia). Published 400 papers, >20 000 citations, H-index > 60.

BIOGRAPHY
MD/Ph.D. Experimental and Computational Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet. Three distinct undergraduate degrees: Mathematics (minor in Theoretical Physics), Medicine (Medical School), and Philosophy (minor in Psychology), and two years of postgraduate education in Pure and Applied Computational Mathematics.
Following his MD/Ph.D he received a faculty position as assistant professor in Computer Science. While on leave, he was a Visiting Scientist (as a five-year Wennergren fellow) and an Alfred P Sloan Fellow (Boston, USA).
Upon his return, he was recruited as an assistant professor in Computer Science & Bioinformatics. Next, he became a chaired full professor 4.5 years after his Ph.D, serving as the Head of the Division (Chaired Full Professor) for Computational Biology, Dept of Physics (2002-2010). Then, he was recruited as a Director and a lifetime named Strategic Chaired Professorship in Computational Medicine at the Center for Molecular Medicine (Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, 2010-2021).
He has been an ERC co-investigator (consolidator), and, while at Karolinska Institute, ranked as outstanding (highest distinction, external research evaluation). Finalist for the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Mathematics. Named SciLifeLab Faculty and Named Fellow in the European Society for Preventive Medicine. Winner of the DREAM competition for system identification, winner of two out of three tasks in the NeurIPS Single Cell data challenge.
He is the Founder of two Biotech startups & serves as an Executive Director at Immune Algorithmics.
Professor at Kaust since 2016 affiliated with the Bioscience, Computer Science, Bioengineering, and Statistics programs. KAUST Academic Faculty Speaker at the Convocation and Finalist for the Kaust Best Teaching Award.