Professor Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is a Chilean-born Swedish biologist and computer scientist.
He received his doctorate in medical sciences from Uppsala University in 1994.
He is Professor of Bioinformatics and the head of SLU-Global Bioinformatics Centre at the Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences.
His main research deals with development of bioinformatics solutions for the Life Sciences community.
He was the chairman of EMBnet, from 2003 to 2010, a science-based group of collaborating bioinformatics nodes
throughout Europe, and a number of nodes outside Europe. He is also the director of SLU-Global Bioinformatics
Centre which created eBiotools, eBioX and eBioKit.