I am a bioinformatics scientist at Labor Berlin, a clinical laboratory, which serves the Charité and several other hospitals in Berlin.

My main interests are high-throughput sequencing for clinical diagnostics of pathogens using both amplicon and whole-genome sequencing. During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we also supported the molecular surveillance of circulating lineages of the virus in Germany.

Besides data analysis, I am also busy with maintaining our server infrastructure, setting up analysis pipelines, making web interfaces, containerization of services, and system administration.

I wrote some programs, usally in C/C++, R or Perl for sequence analysis and visualisation, see my GitHub page.

The posts on this website are typically about issues that I encountered, with the hope of finding it again in the future when the same issue reappears and I have forgotten about it.

Education

• Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, 2011
  Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  Thesis title: Sequence Reconstruction and Improved non-coding RNA Homology Search
• Diploma in Bioinformatics/Computer Science, 2006
  University of Leipzig, Germany
  Thesis title: BBQ in Tanimoto Scores: Novel Scoring Schemes for cis-Regulatory Module Discovery

Work Experience

• since 2019 Scientist / Clinical Bioinformatics
  Labor Berlin - Charité Vivantes GmbH, Berlin
• 2016 - 2019 Postdoc
  Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
• 2011 - 2016 Postdoc
  The Bioinformatics Centre, Dept. of Biology, University of Copenhagen
• 2007 - 2011 Ph.D. fellow
  Center for Non-Coding RNAs in Technology and Health, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen
• 2006 - 2007 Research assistant
  Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig
• 2002 - 2006 Student assistant
  Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig

Publications

See all publications on my Google Scholar profile.