01/2015 to present SIB group leader, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 02/2014 to present Head of Applied Computational Genomics Team – ACGT Institute of Applied Simulations, Zürich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW 10/2007 – 01/2014 Senior research fellow and lecturer, Computer Science Department ETH Zürich and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) 08/2005 – 10/2007 Postdoctoral research fellow, Group of Prof Ziheng Yang (FRS) Biology Department, University College London (UCL), UK 12/2003 – 09/2004 Postdoctoral research fellow, Group of Prof Olivier Gascuel LIRMM, Université Montpellier II, France 09/2000 – 11/2003 PhD in Statistical Genomics Group of Prof Ziheng Yang Biology Department, University College London, UK 09/1999 – 09/2000 MRes in Modeling Biological Complexity (with distinction) Center for Maths & Physics in Life Sciences and EXperimental biology, UCL, UK 08/1997 – 12/1999 Teacher and from 08/1998 Head of Maths, Statistics and IT Bellerbys College London, Study Group International, UK 09/1993 – 04/1996 Assistant lecturer in Geometry and Algebra School of Geometry, Pedagogical State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 09/1988 – 09/1993 MSc in Maths and IT (with distinction = “Red diploma”) Pedagogical State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia