Prof. Dr. Holger Gohlke

Holger Gohlke is a Director of the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG-4: Bioinformatics) at Forschungszentrum Jülich and a Professor of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. He received his diploma in chemistry from the TU Darmstadt and his PhD from Marburg University, and did postdoctoral research at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla. After appointments as Assistant Professor in Frankfurt and Professor in Kiel, he moved to Düsseldorf in 2009 and joined Jülich in 2017.

His current research focuses on understanding, predicting, and engineering (bio-)molecular structure, interaction, and function. He applies and develops techniques based on molecular bioinformatics, computational biology and biophysics.