Shoshana Wodak

Shoshana Wodak is an Austrian computational biologist and an organizational leader in the field of protein-protein docking. Wodak was one of the first people to dock proteins together using a computer program.

Wodak received her Licence in chemistry from the Free University of Brussels, followed by a Ph.D in biophysics from Columbia University in 1974. Since 1981, she has held teaching and research positions at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and in 1990 she became associate professor in the Faculty of sciences. Between 1995-2002 she also held the position of Group Leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).

Wodak was elected an ISCB Fellow by the International Society for Computational Biology in 2016 and is one of the ISCB founders. She helped organize the Critical Assessment of Prediction of Interactions, for which she has served on the Management Group since the founding in 2002.

Wodak worked in the Research Institute of the SickKids Hospital in Toronto, Canada, where she became in 2004 the Scientific Director of the Centre for Computational Biology. Provided by Wikipedia