Prof. Dr. Frank Oliver Glöckner

On November 1, 2019, Prof. Dr. Frank Oliver Glöckner was appointed as professor for "Earth-System Data Sciences" at the Faculty of Geosciences of the University of Bremen. The appointment was made jointly with the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.

Frank Oliver Glöckner is an internationally renowned researcher and expert for environmental and genomic data, who has made central contributions to scientific data infrastructures in Earth system research for many years.

After his studies and doctorate in microbial ecology at the Technical University of Munich, Frank Oliver Glöckner moved to the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen. Here he led a project group on microbial genomics and became head of the research group "Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics". Since 2010, he has held a professorship for bioinformatics at Jacobs University Bremen.

Further information:

https://www.awi.de/nc/ueber-uns/organisation/mitarbeiter/frank-oliver-gloeckner.html