Frank Emmert-Streib studied physics at the University of Siegen (Germany) gaining his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Bremen (Germany). He received postdoctoral training from the Stowers Institute for Medical Re- search (Kansas City, USA) and the University of Washington (Seattle, USA). Currently, he is an associate professor at the Queen's University Belfast (UK) at the Center for Cancer Research and Cell Biology heading the Computational Biology and Machine Learning Laboratory. His main research interests are in the field of computational medicine, network biology and statistical genomics.