Biography

Magnus Palmblad is Associate Professor and Head of Bioinformatics at the Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). He did his MSc in Molecular Biotechnology at Uppsala University with minors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland, and received his PhD in Ion Physics at Uppsala University in 2002. After a 3-year postdoc at the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he was appointed as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Reading’s BioCentre and joined the LUMC Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry Unit in 2007, where he was instrumental in evolving this to the present Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics. His main research interests are in computational proteomics, including machine leaning/AI, novel algorithms, and data analysis workflows. He has also published extensively on systematic analysis of the biomedical literature combining text mining and computational chemistry. Dr. Palmblad has served on Editorial Boards of several journals, including currently as Associate Editor of the Journal of Proteome Research.