Marco Roos

Biography

Marco's research focus is on making state-of-the-art computer science applicable to enhance biomedical research, particularly for rare human diseases and with knowledge discovery and data linking techniques. He has extended his original biological interest in the role of chromatin in the functioning of the cell to bridging between genotype and phenotype using data linking techniques and data science. After including computer science subjects in his MSc in molecular biology, Marco worked as a multidisciplinary researcher in research groups in life science and computer science. Now, as group leader of the Biosemantics research group of prof. Dr. Barend Mons, LUMC, he leads the research, development and application of knowledge discovery methods for human genetics research. He co-leads the rare disease community of the European life science data infrastructure ELIXIR, FAIR* 'at source' activities in the European Joint Program Rare Diseases, and initiated the Rare Diseases Global Open FAIR implementation network. An important aspect of Marco's work is advocating principles of FAIR and Linked Data to create a powerful substrate and world-wide robust infrastructure for knowledge discovery across heterogeneous data distributed over institutes and countries.

* FAIR principles: data should be findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable for humans and computers.