Prof Dr Achim
Zielesny holds a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Cologne,
Germany. From 1991 to 1994 he worked as a scientific assistant at the
University of Cologne. Between 1994 and 2001, Achim worked for Bayer AG,
Leverkusen as project and group manager in the central research, the computer
science, and the human resources management divisions. Since 2001, Achim is
Professor of Chemistry, Chemoinformatics, and Bioinformatics at the University
of Applied Sciences, Gelsenkirchen, Section Recklinghausen, Germany.
In 2004 Achim founded a company for scientific computing solutions in Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany (www.gnwi.de). He is a board member of the Institute for Bio- and Chemoinformatics at the University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen, Section Recklinghausen (www.ibci.fh-gelsenkirchen.de) and since 2005 a board member of the section Chemistry-Information-Computer (CIC) of the German Chemical Society.