KTH Computational Biology was created in 2005 to strengthen the KTH
research profile in Computational Biology and related disciplines.
The Department has three full professors and six lectures/junior
lectures. The Department staff is in charge of most of the curriculum of the
first year of the Master program, as well as coordinates two of the
three specializations in the second year.
The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship
and the KTH School of Industrial Engineering and Management
coordinates the third specialization.
Key courses in the second year are offered by KTH School of Biotechnology.
In addition, students in the second year can choose a wide selection
of advanced courses offered by other Departments of KTH School of
Computer Science and Communication.
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Lars Arvestad is Assistant Professor in Computer Science, teaching
courses in programming concepts and Bioinformatics. His research
interests are in computational methods for understanding molecular
evolution and other areas of molecular biology. After his PhD at KTH, he
worked in the pharmaceutical industry and the Karolinska Institutet
before returning to KTH by joining the Stockholm Bioinformatics Center.
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Erik Aurell is is Professor at KTH and heads the Computational
Biological Physics research group at the department of Computational
Biology. His research focus is on gene regulation, and on design and
models of distributed systems in dynamic environments. He was co-organizer
of the Third International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2002,
Stockholm).
Before joining KTH he worked in the Swedish IT industry, and has
been an visiting scholar/professor in France, Italy, Poland, Russia
and China.
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Terrence Brown is currently serving on the SSES faculty as Course Director for the introductory venture creation courses Ideation and Planning. He is the former Dean of SSES and Program Director for the Scandinavian International Management Institute in Copenhagen.
He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA in Organisational Management and a Doctorate in Entrepreneurship and Corporate Strategy from Rutgers University.
He has published in various academic journals and is the Founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing. He has also lectured throughout North America and Europe.
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Örjan Ekeberg is Associate Professor in Computer Science since
1996. His research focus is on simulation models and computational
techniques for studying the interaction between neuronal circuits and
musculo-skeletal mechanics in the context of animal movement control.
He has been a Resident Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study in
Berlin, and was recently awarded a price as best teacher of the
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Erik Fransén is the Director of the Master Programme in
Computational and Systems Biology as of August 2008. He is associate
Professor in Computer
Science at KTH and has been a post doctoral fellow at the Department of
Psychology at Harvard University in 1997-1998.
His research includes studies on the ionic basis of
cellular and network excitability and of working memory using
biophysical modeling and simulation. He gives courses in modeling of
biological systems and in artificial neural networks and related
mashine learning techniques.
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Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski has a M.S. in Medical Sciences from Umeå
University, a M.S. in engineering Physics from Royal Institute of
Technology, and a PhD in computer science on work focusing on modeling
bursting mechanisms and coordination in motor systems. From 1999 to 2001
she was a postdoc at the Krasnow Institute, VA, USA, modeling biochemical
pathways underlying classical conditioning. After returning to Sweden, she
is now an associative professor at School of Computer Science and
Communication, Royal Institute of Technology. Her main research interests
cover modeling of motor systems, including studying the dynamics in
intracellular signaling networks involved in learning and synaptic
plasticity.
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Alexander Kozlov received his Diploma in Radiophysics and PhD in
Physics and Mathematics from the University of Nizhny Novgorod,
Russia, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. He is a research fellow at
the Department of Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institute, and at the
Computational Biology and Neurocomputing, Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm. His research includes dynamics of locomotor
nervous systems, abstract and realistic neuron modeling and
large-scale simulations.
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Jens Lagergren is Professor at KTH and heads the CBB research
group at the Department of Computational Biology. He is also the Director
of PhD studies at KTH School of Computer Science and Communication.
His main interest are comparative genomics,
gene regulation, and computational cancer research. He has an extensive
international network and is a frequent program committee member of
high profile bioinformatics and computational biology conferences.
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Anders Lansner is Professor in Computer science at Stockholm University and heads
the CBN (Computational biology and Neurocomputing) research group at the Department
of Computational Biology. His main interest is computational neuroscience and
brain-inspired computation. He leads the computational neuroscience methodology
platform at SBI (Stockholm Brain Institute) and the Swedish INCF-node in
Neuroinformatics, and is currently partner of two European research consortia
focused on theoretical and computational brain science. He has supervised more than
ten PhD students in computer science with specialization towards computational
neuroscience.
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