Sebastian Will

Sebastian Will is a Full Professor of Bioinformatics at École Polytechnique IP Paris since 2020. Previously held positions include:

• Researcher with Ivo Hofacker at TBI, University of Vienna
• Researcher with Peter Stadler at Bioinformatics group, University of Leipzig
• Akademischer Rat at Bioinformatics group, University of Freiburg (2005-2012)
• Postdoc with Bonnie Berger at MIT's CSAIL (2010-2011)

His research focuses on:

• RNA structure prediction algorithms
• Pseudoknot modeling
• RNA-RNA interaction analysis
• Structure design with Infrared framework
• Multi-target RNA design
• Integration of experimental data
• Ensemble-based sparsification

Publication trends show concentrated research in:

• RNA structure prediction techniques
• Algorithm development
• Dynamic programming optimization
• Tree decomposition applications
• Stochastic sampling methods
• Multi-objective design

Contributed extensively to software development including:

• LocARNA 2.0
• Infrared framework
• SparseMFEFold
• BiAlign
• RNAPOND
• Pankov
• LocARNA-P