Sebastian Will is a Full Professor of Bioinformatics at École Polytechnique since March 2020. Formerly, he was a Researcher (Universitätsassistent) with Ivo Hofacker at the TBI, University Vienna. Until 2016, he was a Researcher with Peter Stadler at the Bioinformatics group, Computer Science, University of Leipzig. From 2005 to 2012, he held the position of "Akademischer Rat" (comparable to "assistant professor") at Rolf Backofen's Bioinformatics group at the University of Freiburg. In 2011, he served as an Instructor at the Mathematical Department of MIT. From 2010 to 2011, he was a post-doc with Bonnie Berger at the Computation and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. He received a Research Scholarship from the DFG (German Research Foundation) and a PhD Fellowship from GKLI (PhD programme 'Graduiertenkolleg Logic in Computer Science') of the LMU until his move to the University of Jena. He earned his Computer Science PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) in Jena.