Prof. Dr. Ferdinando Cicalese

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsSoftware Engineering and Programming Languages,Theoretical Computer Science,Numerical Analysis, Optimization, Simulation

Current contact address

CountryItaly
CityVerona
InstitutionUniversita degli Studi di Verona
InstituteComputer Science

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jens StoyeArbeitsgruppe Genominformatik, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2004

Programme(s)

2004Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Without computers, biologists, chemists and pharmacists are at something of a loss; genetic research is completely up the creek. Genome sequencing and protein structure analysis do not only require sufficient computing capacity but, above all, tools such as algorithms and theoretical principles from informatics. Ferdinando Cicalese's project starts at this interface and aims at combining theoretical research with the objective of applying it to genetic research. Using this combination of different theories (especially combinatorial search theory and information theory) he wants to develop methods for recognizing patterns in large amounts of raw data from genetic research which could serve as the basis for analyses and models.