A world authority in machine learning applied to systems medicine, single cell genomics, and causality.

He became a strategic chaired full professor in Computational Medicine, appointed a Director for the Computational Medicine Division, at the Dept. of Medicine, Karolinska Institute (the institution that awards the Nobel Prize in Medicine) & Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Karolinska Hospital. In 2014, he was named Faculty at the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab –  National Center for Molecular Biosciences, Stockholm).

Since 2016, he is a Professor in Bioscience (BESE) and Professor in Computer Science (CEMSE) at KAUST. He is an ERC co-investigator (2013-) on causal discovery, ranked as outstanding (highest distinction among faculty, ERA 2012) at Karolinska, winner of the international DREAM competition (2008) on network inference.

Founder of two BioIT companies, in 2005 he became the winner of the national award for founding the most promising start-up company of the year.  

He holds a Ph.D. in Medicine and MD (Karolinska), 2 years of posgraduate PhD courses in advanced mathematics (Royal Institute for Technology & Stockholm University), and 3 separate graduate degrees in Medicine (Karolinska), Philosophy, and Mathematics (Stockholm University).