Zürich Metropolitan Area
Senior research data expert and bioinformatician with 18+ years of experience in open science, both as a computational biologist and a service provider for scientific computing infrastructure. Passionate about accelerating research through open science practices and robust data management, with experience in software architecture and programming, large-scale computing, big data, leadership, and strategic planning. Strong communicator, able to translate the needs of researchers into technical solutions. Notable Achievements: - Project coordinator for OpenEM (openem.ch). Created an open research data (ORD) infrastructure for Swiss electron microscopy facilities. Wrote ETH and swissuniversities grants leading to 2.4 million CHF, then led a distributed team of 7 developers implementing the infrastructure. - Core developer for SciCat, an open source data catalog used by synchrotrons and large-scale facilities - Computational biologist specializing in structural biology, molecular evolution, and algorithm design. Methods developed include CE-Symm, EPPIC 2 (eppic-web.org), and TRAL 2. - Founder of the Open Standards Community for Electron Microscopy (osc-em.github.io) and maintainer of the OSC-EM schema - Member of the ETH-ORD Expert Group for Services and Infrastructure & evangelist for open research data
Scientist and engineer in the High Performance Computing and Emerging Technologies group, with an emphasis on biological aapplications.
I worked with Maria Anisimova on the evolution of tandem repeat proteins. In particular, we were interested in the Armadillo repeat protein family. The research included developing phylogenetic methods and using machine learning to predict binding affinities of native and designed tandem repeat proteins.
Postdoc with Guido Capitani. I worked on the Evolutionary Protein-Protein Interface Classifier (EPPIC) with an emphasis on identifying biological assemblies; protein internal symmetry (CE-Symm); and participated in the CASP12 assessment of quaternary assembly predications.
In Philip Bourne's Lab.
Extended the Rosetta software package for computational structural biology by implementing a better model of disulfide bonds.