Peter Robinson, Professor and Donald A. Roux Chair, Genomics and Computational Biology, leads a research group dedicated to the development of algorithms and computational resources for genomics. Peter is a PI of the Monarch Initiative, an NIH supported project dedicated to the integration, alignment, and re-distribution of cross-species gene, genotype, variant, disease, and phenotype data. Highlights of the lab’s work include the Human Phenotype Ontology, the Exomiser  suite of tools for exome and genome analysis, and algorithms for ChIP-seq and immunogenomics.

Peter studied Mathematics at Columbia College, Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Computer Science at Columbia University. He completed an internship in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Yale University, and a residency (Facharzt) in Pediatrics and obtained a Habilitation (roughly equivalent to a PhD) in Human Genetics at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He led the Bioinformatics group at the Institute for Medical Genetics and Human Genetics at the Charité from 2004-2016. From 2016-2023, he led a research group at the Jackson Laboratory (JAX) for Genomic Medicine in Connecticut, USA. From 2024, his primary affiliation will be with the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) and he will continue to be affiliated with JAX.