Alexander Gress obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Computational Molecular Biology as well as a Master’s degree in Computational Molecular Biology from Saarland University. Following his Master’s degree he started as a PhD student in the Computational Biology department at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and afterwards continued at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland. His research interests are the implications of protein sequence variation on protein structure,  function, and interactions with small molecules and other macromolecules.