Dr. Marc Zimmermann has currently the position of group leader and deputy head of Department of Bioinformatics at the Fraunhofer SCAI. He has managed international research projects and developed chemoCR. chemoCR is a software recognising chemical structures in image documents. The chemoCR system combines pattern recognition techniques with a chemical rule based expert system.
He has experience as a software developer for more than 10 years and has acted as team leader for software development projects since five years. All software projects have been financed by industrial partners. During his PhD in computer science and pharmacology (2004) he worked on a project on HTS data analysis in cooperation with Aventis Pharma and has published more than 10 articles on virtual screening. In his academic career he has worked as assistant to Prof. Lengauer, (University of Bonn, 2000). He gives courses/seminars in Molecular Bioinformatics, Algorithms and Computer Aided Design at Bonn-Aachen International Centre for Information Technology (B-IT). He has supervised more than 10 Bachelor and Master Theses in the area of image reconstruction and molecular modelling.