Arli Aditya Parikesit
Prof.Dr. rer. nat. Arli Aditya is Vice Rector of Research and Innovation at Indonesia International Institute for Life Sciences (I3L). He obtained bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia. In order to pursue a degree in bioinformatics, Prof. Parikesit accepted an offer from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to conduct doctorate research at the Bioinformatics Group, Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics, University of Leipzig, Germany. His doctoral research is focused on the utilization of modern protein domain annotation techniques in the three domains of life. In addition, Prof. Parikesit is also an expert on immunoinformatics, bioinformatics algorithms, structural bioinformatics, silico drug design, and in silico transcriptomics. Currently, he is devising a pipeline to apply his expertise to COVID-19 drug and vaccine designs.