Nicola Mulder

Focus areas

• Studying microbial genomics and infectious diseases from both host and pathogen perspectives
• Investigating human genetic factors underlying disease susceptibility
• Studying African population genetic diversity
• Understanding the effect of the microbiome on immunity and disease
• Developing tools and resources to support high-throughput biology data analysis

Career highlights

• 2018 Received NRF B2 rating
• 2017 Awarded 5-year NIH grant for H3ABioNet
• 2016 Elected to University of Cape Town College of Fellows
• 2014, 2015 Named on Thomson Reuters Highly Cited List
• 2014 Promoted to Full Professor (University of Cape Town)
• 2012 Awarded 5-year NIH grant for H3ABioNet
• 2009 Appointed Associate Professor and Head of Computational Biology (CBIO) division (University of Cape Town)
• 2007 Appointed Adjunct Extraordinary Associate Professor (University of the Western Cape)
• 2005 Jointly appointed InterPro Team Leader (European Bioinformatics Institute) and National Bioinformatics Network Node Manager (University of Cape Town)