Peer Bork
Peer Bork is a German bioinformatician. He is head of structural and computational biology at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, in south-west Germany.
Bork received his PhD in biochemistry in 1990 and his habilitation in theoretical biophysics in 1995. He has worked on the microbiomes of humans and other animals.
He is on the board of editorial reviewers of Science, and is a senior editor of the journal Molecular Systems Biology.
In 2008 Bork received the Nature "mid-career achievement" award for science mentoring in Germany. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht in 2017.
