Featured Keynote Speakers

Bio: I am associate professor for Computational Molecular Medicine at the Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology.

Since 2009, I have been initiating and conducting projects on research reproducibility, validation, reporting, fishing for significance and false research findings, publication bias, benchmarking, and neutral comparisons of statistical methods; some of these activities are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). I am a Chair of the “simulation panel” of the STRATOS initiative and the Associate Editor for Europe of Briefings in Bioinformatics, a journal specialized in reviews and comparison studies.

Bio: I am a researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). I work at the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire in Orléans and as an associate researcher at the Synchrotron SOLEIL.

My two main current fields of research are

• The structure and dynamics of proteins, using molecular simulation and statistical physics. Much of my work is method development, in particular in the field of Elastic Network Models.
• The methodology of computational science, in particular concerning reproducibility and digital scientific notations in the context of the Open Science movement.