About Thibault
I am a bioinformatician with a strong foundation in evolutionary genomics and data science, and international experience in both research and teaching. I most recently worked as a Research Assistant at the Natural History Museum, London. I hold a BSc in Genetics from University College London (UCL) and an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Copenhagen. I have contributed to multiple academic and professional projects using Python, R, Unix/Linux, Nextflow workflows, and high-performance computing environments.
My personal portfolio (which includes my CV) : thibaultbret.crd.co
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
London (up to 50km)
Experience
- Natural History MuseumResearch AssistantRESEARCHJanuary 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)London, United Kingdom
- Processed Nanopore data for accurate detection of airborne pathogen for the first ever spin-out company launched at the Natural History Museum (Agnos Bioscience™).
- Investigated genomic changes in ancient and modern wheat and barleypopulation using variant data (VCF files).
- Developed a benchmarking pipeline to assess the suitability of low coverage genomic data from museum specimens for organelle genome assembly.
- Performed de novo transcriptome assembly from Nanopore reads and identified genes involved in pigmentation across marine invertebrate species.
- ESGIIntervenantEDUCATION AND E-LEARNINGSeptember 2024 - February 2025 (5 months)Paris, FranceConducted an introductory course in Bioinformatics over five months, which included:
- Preparing course materials
- Delivering five 3-hour lectures
- Writing tutorials
- Preparing and grading the final examination
- Globe Institute, University of CopenhagenAssistant de rechercheRESEARCHOctober 2022 - October 2023 (1 year)Copenhagen, Denmark
- Performed quality assessment, alignment, phylogenetic reconstruction and
metabolic pathway analysis on 100+ bacterial sequences.- Explored the evolutionary history of acetic acid bacteria lineages, providing a novel perspective with industrially relevant insights.
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Education
- MSc BioinformaticsUniversity of Copenhagen2024MSc Bioinformatics
- Bachelor of ScienceUniversity College London2022BSc Biological Sciences (Genetics)
Certifications
- Data Scientist with Python TrackDatacamp2021