Description

I hold a Master degree in Evoluionary Biology and a PhD in Computational Biology.

With approximately 10 years of experience in bioinformatic research, I can offer a sound knowledge of biology and the analysis of high-thoughput sequencing data.

In the past, I worked in both academic and industry research environments, and I got used to interdisciplinary, highly collaborative work.

I have a long term experience in the following:

- analysis and interpretation of various NGS data types (DNA-seq, bulk RNA-seq, single cell RNA-seq)

- conceptualization and development of robust bioinformatics pipelines

- summary and visualisation of biological data

- design of experiments to validate computational predictions

Additionally, I have a solid understanding of machine learning methods, including code development for model training and validation.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Silence Therapeutics GmbH,
BIOINFORMATICIAN
January 2021 - August 2025 (4 years and 8 months)
Berlin, Germany
• Main tasks and responsibilities: RNA-seq analyses (QC, differential gene expression); risk assessment of candidate molecules; backing up data in the cloud; development of bioinformatic workflows and machine learning models to identify RNAi mechanisms; regular presentations of results
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ),
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGIST
January 2019 - January 2020 (1 year)
69 Heidelberg, Germany
• Focus: somatic evolution and gene expression variability at the single-cell level
• Main tasks and responsibilities: single-cell RNA-seq analyses; development of bioinformatic workflows to detect somatic variants; differential gene expression; supervise students; regular presentations of results
Earlham Institute,
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGIST
January 2014 - January 2019 (5 years)
Norwich, UK
• Focus: microRNA annotation and evolution in mammals
• Side project: identification of structural variation and gene regulatory networks in African cichlids
• Main tasks and responsibilities: microRNA annotation and profiling; microRNA target prediction; identification of structural variants from paired-end reads; differential gene expression; gene set enrichment; sequence clustering; orthology analyses; read and whole genome alignments; database search; regular presentations of results