Erik van Nimwegen (born 5 November 1970 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch computational biologist and Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Erik van Nimwegen studied theoretical physics at the University of Amsterdam.

Since 2003 he is Professor of Computational Biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel,[2] and group leader at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics since 2004.

[6] Further research topics are the development of general Bayesian methods for transcription factor and miRNA binding site prediction as well as models for inferring regulatory networks from genome-wide expression and chromatin state data.

[7] Since 2010 Member of the editorial board of the journal PLoS Computational Biology.