Dr. Sebastian Will

Akademischer Rat (Assistant Professor)
at Bionformatics, Computer Science Department
Freiburg University

Email wills@mit.edu
Mailing Address Georges-Koehler-Allee 106, Room 02011
79110 Freiburg, Germany
Phone Office: +49 (0) 761 203 8529

Biosketch

Since 2005, "Akademischer Rat" at University Freiburg at Bioinformatics group, University of Freiburg with Rolf Backofen's. 2011, Instructor at the Mathematical Department of MIT. 2010-2011, postdoctoral researcher in Bonnie Berger's Computation and Biology Lab at the Computation and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. Research Scholarship by DFG (German Research Foundation). PhD Fellowship of GKLI (PhD programme 'Graduiertenkolleg Logic in Computer Science') of the LMU until move to University of Jena. PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) in Computer Science at University Jena.

Research Interests

Algorithmic bioinformatics of RNA and protein structure. Structure prediction, interaction, folding dynamics, and comparative analysis of structural RNA. Genome-wide prediction of non-coding RNA. Declarative methods for bioinformatics (in particular, constraint-based).

Publications

Please see the my publication list at the bioinformatics group Freiburg (comprising 40 refereed publications in international journals and conference proceedings).

Teaching

Please see the list of previous classes at the bioinformatics group Freiburg for my classes taught there (as main instructor in English). Furthermore, see class 18.417, which I recently taught as instructor at the MIT Math Department.

Miscellaneous

Author/maintainer of the Software Package LocARNA for RNA sequence-structure alignment of RNA. LocARNA is free software and also accessible online as part of the Freiburg RNA Webserver and various other software.

Co-chair of WCB10 and previous workshops on constraint-based methods in bioinformatics.