Jaak Vilo, Vice President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, has been elected a member of Academia Europaea, the Academy of Europe. This was to recognise his high-level research and long-standing contribution to the development of European science.
Academy Member Jaak Vilo will join the academy’s Biochemistry and Molecular Biology section, with Informatics as his affiliated section.
In addition to Jaak Vilo, Academia Europaea includes 15 members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Jaak Aaviksoo, Jüri Allik, Jaan Einasto, Jüri Engelbrecht, Jaak Järv, Veronika Kalmus, Kalle Kirsimäe, Mare Kõiva, Anu Realo, Ülo Mander, Andres Metspalu, Tiina Randma-Liiv, Mart Saarma, Tarmo Soomere and Marek Tamm.
Academia Europaea, founded in 1988 by the Royal Society of London, is a pan-European academy of humanities, letters, law and sciences. Its members include more than 5,500 scholars from across Europe, including 88 Nobel Prize laureates, several of whom were elected to the academy before receiving the prize. The members are leading experts in the fields of physics and engineering, biology and medicine, mathematics, the humanities, social and cognitive sciences, and economics and law.
See also Jaak Vilo’s profile page and the list of Academia Europaea members on the Academia Europaea website.