Dr. Hans Binder is a nominal Professor at Leipzig University and holds an honorary doctorate from the Slavonic University in Yerevan. He served for over 20 years as Managing Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and now as principal investigator at the IZBI. Since 2021, he has led a research laboratory at the Armenian Bioinformatics Institute (ABI), focusing on cancer and grapevine bioinformatics. Dr. Binder has authored over 300 scientific publications, more than 30 of which are co-authored with Armenian researchers.