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Professor at KAUST since August 2016. Head of the Living Systems Laboratory, affiliated with the programs in Bioscience, Computer Science, Bioengineering, and Statistics at KAUST. He holds three separate undergraduate degrees with majors in MedSchool, Mathematics, and Philosophy respectively. He did two years of postgraduate education in pure and applied mathematics while doing an experimental Ph.D./M.D. degree in Medicine (09/1997). He was a Visiting Scientist as a Wennergren and Alfred P Sloan Fellow (USA, 1998-2001) while holding a position as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science 1998-2002 at Royal Institute of Technology. In 02/2002 he became the first chaired full professor in Computational Biology, in the Division of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. In 2009 he was appointed as a Director of the Unit for Computational Medicine, and a personal strategic professorship in computational medicine Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital. In 06/2014 he was named Faculty at the Science for Life Laboratory a National Center for Molecular Biosciences, Stockholm.

He is an ERC co-investigator (consolidator) on causal discovery and is ranked in an external evaluation as outstanding (highest distinction) at Karolinska Institute. He is the founder of two BioIT companies (one company awarded most promising company of the year), inventor of several patents, and has served as a consultant for startups.  He been awarded distinctions for