PD Dr. Leila Taher

Professional Appointments

• Since October 2024: Head of the Core Unit Bioinformatics, Dataintegration and
  Analysis (CUBiDA), Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany
• 2019-March 2025:Universitätsprofessorin (full professor equivalent, tenured) for Bioinformatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria
• Since 2015: Guest Professor, Institut für Biostatistik und Informatik in Medizin und
  Alternsforschung (IBIMA), Universitätsmedizin Rostock, Germany
• 2015-2019:Juniorprofessorin (assistant professor equivalent, non-tenured) for Bioinformatics
  Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, FriedrichAlexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
• 2012-2015: Junior research group leader, Institut für Biostatistik und Informatik in Medizin und
  Alternsforschung (IBIMA), Universitätsmedizin Rostock, Germany
• 2008-2012: Visiting fellow, Computational Biology Branch (CBB) of the National Center
  for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)/National Library of Medicine (NLM)/National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
• 2006-2007: Postdoctoral fellow, Fundación Miguel Lillo/CONICET, Argentina

Education

• 2016:Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification, German academic system), Universitätsmedizin Rostock, Germany
• 2006:Dr. rer. nat. (Doctor of Natural Sciences, Ph.D. equivalent), Universität Bielefeld, Germany
• 2001:Licenciatura (European Master's degree equivalent) in Biotechnology, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Santa Fe), Argentina