Soeding, Johannes, Dr.

Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences

1992: Diploma in physics at the University of Heidelberg
1996: PhD in physics at the University of Heidelberg
1996-1998: Post-doc with C. Cohen-Tannoudji and J. Dalibard at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris
1999-2002: Strategy management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group in Frankfurt
2002-2007: Staff scientist with Andrei Lupas at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen
2007-2013: Group leader at the Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry, University of Munich (LMU)
since 2014: Group Leader of the Computational Biology Group at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (former MPI for Biophysical Chemistry)

Major Research Interests
Computational Biology Research Group
The group works on two broad topics. First, we develop computational and statistical methods for predicting the structure and function of proteins from their amino acid sequences. Our software packages for fast protein sequence searches, HH-suite/HHpred and MMseqs2 are standard tools in their field, and Foldseek is for fast protein structure searches. We also develop a statistical methods and software for analyzing large biomedical datasets for better understanding the genetic architecture of complex human diseases.

Homepage Department / Research Group
https://www.mpinat.mpg.de/de/soeding

ORCID: 0000-0001-9642-8244