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Milot Mirdita

Assistant Professor

SKKU School of Medicine

Intro

Milot Mirdita is an assistant professor at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine and a former member of the Steinegger Lab. His expertise includes bioinformatics, metagenomics, protein structure prediction and machine learning. He is the developer and maintainer of many open-source tools like ColabFold, MMseqs2 and Foldseek. Milot holds a PhD from the University of Göttingen and the MPI-NAT, where he previously worked with Johannes Söding.

Education

  • Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude), 2022

    University of Göttingen & Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences

  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2016

    Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

  • B.Sc. in Bioinformatics, 2016

    Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich & Technical University of Munich