Since 2018, Stephan Frickenhaus heads the Computing and Data Centre of Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, where he also leads the Computing branch. He holds a co-operation professorship in technical math of the earth system at Center for Industrial Mathematics, Univesity Bremen. He held a professorship in algorithmics in molecular biology at Hochschule Bremerhaven (2004-2018). He holds a Dr. rer. nat . from Humboldt University Berlin in theoretical biophysics, having a diploma in theoretical particle physics at University Dormund.
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