Sofia Kirke Forslund

Dr Sofia Kirke Forslund trained as a molecular biotechnologist in Uppsala, then in 2011 aquired a PhD in computational biology in Stockholm. After post-doctoral research at the EMBL she founded in 2018 the Host-Microbiome Systems Medicine of Cardiometabolic Disease group at the ECRC (joint MDC/Charité venture) in Berlin.

Photo by: Pablo Castagnola

Her work to data has focused in three main areas:

1. Evolutionary and systems bioinformatics tool development, cofounder analysis and big data integration.
2. Metagenome analyses of pathogenicity of microbiomes including antibiotic resistance.
3. Roles of microbiota in rise, treatment, diagnosis and management of systemic disease or health of the host.