Profile
Data is the future of biomedicine, and I contribute to discovery and innovation by bridging biology and data science with data analysis & interpretation and development of pipelines & tools. My main focus is on omics technologies in immunology, neuroscience and developmental biology. I have 5+ years of experience in bioinformatics, biomedical research and experimental generation of omics data. As a result of my mixed background in computational- and molecular biology, I know where the data comes from and what it means.
Biomedical
- Neuroscience, Immunology, Molecular biology, Genetics, Developmental biology
Technologies- Transcriptomics: Gene expression (single-cell, spatial, bulk), Non-coding RNA
- Epigenomics: Chromatin accessibility (ATAC), DNA-protein interactions (ChIP)
- Proteomics: Mass spectrometry, High-dimensional fl ow cytometry, CITEseq
- Immunomics: T/B cell receptor repertoire, Cytokine profi ling
- Integration of multiple omics approaches on single-cell and bulk level
Computational- R: Bioconductor, EdgeR, DESeq2, Seurat, Slingshot, Monocle, SCENIC, etc
- Python: Scanpy, Squidpy, Scirpy, Muon, Pandas, Numpy, etc
- Other: Nextfl ow, Docker, Git, Jupyter, Bash, Alignment tools, etc.
Employment History10/2023 ? todayFreelance Bioinformatics Consultant
- Collaborating with clients from academia and industry to guide and conduct omics experimental planning, and data analysis & interpretation.
08/2024 ? 11/2024Team Lead Biomedical Data Science
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
- Leading a team of 5 bioinformaticians and computational biologists
- Overseeing multidisciplinary projects of biologists and bioinformaticians
- Guiding integration of omics data (long-read, single-cell & spatial multiomics)
06/2022 - 10/2024(Senior) Postdoctoral Research Associate
Leibniz-Institute of Virology & University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
- Guiding and overseeing systems immunology projects within department
- Teaching bioinformatics course for postgraduates
- Implementing omics laboratory protocols and bioinformatics pipelines
- Analysing and interpreting various omics datasets related to immunity
09/2016 ? 05/2021Doctoral Researcher
University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
- Generating NGS libraries and analysing omics data
- Supervising 4 Master, 1 Bachelor and 1 Doctoral student
- Presenting results at (inter)national conferences and in publications
03/2017 ? 05/2017Visiting Scientist
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth College, USA
- Implementing and conducting molecular biology experiments in the laboratory
Internship01/2016 ? 06/2016M. Sc. Research Intern
University Medical Center Groningen (The Netherlands)
11/2014 ? 06/2015M. Sc. Research Intern
University Medical Center Groningen (The Netherlands)
01/2014 ? 03/2014B. Sc. Research Intern
University of Aberdeen (Scotland, United Kingdom)