Daniela Wieser

Daniela C. Wieser studied biotechnology with a specialization in bioinformatics at the University of Applied Sciences, Freising/Munich. Since the end of 2005, she has been enrolled in a part-time PhD program in the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, where she works on machine learning topics applied to the field of computational biology; the funding is fully awarded by the university. She is also employed as a senior software engineer at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, where she works on large-scale automatic annotation of uncharacterized proteins. She also acts as a tutor at the University of Cambridge to assist students with their bioinformatics projects. She has published papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has coauthored a book chapter on the functional annotation of proteins.