Marcel Schilling

Bioinformatician at Universitat de Barcelona

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

About

Senior Bioinformatician specialising in transcriptomics and post-transcriptional regulation — developing reproducible analytical workflows and translating high-dimensional multi-omics data into biological insight across neurodegeneration, stem cell biology, and human disease.

Experience

  • Bioinformatician at Universitat de Barcelona
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    * Development of modular Snakemake workflows for single-cell transcriptomic analysis, integrating R, Python, Bash, RMarkdown, and Jupyter notebooks in fully reproducible computational environments * Analysis of cell-type composition and gene-expression changes in Schmidtea mediterranea during regeneration, with a focus on terminal differentiation pathways * Collaboration with experimental researchers to translate biological questions into scalable, maintainable analytical pipelines

  • Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute - IDIBELL
    Feb 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

    * Main project: Analyses of scRNA-seq data from human neuronal cultures in the context of Alzheimer’s Disease * Design and implementation of bioinformatic pipelines, data analyses & interpretation, project development * Supervision of Master’s student

  • Scientific Researcher at University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH)
    May 2020 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    * Main project: Analyses of OMICS data from human post-mortem brain samples in the context of Alzheimer’s Disease * Design and implementation of bioinformatic pipelines, data analyses & interpretation, project development * Setup, maintenance and administration of lab network attached storage * Teaching assistance for student practicals on gene expression analyses & Linux

  • Scientific Researcher at Max Delbrück Center
    Nov 2013 - Apr 2020 · 6 yrs 6 mos

    * Main project: Analyses of spatio-temporal transcriptomics data * Design and implementation of bioinformatic pipelines for various RNA-seq data analyses, modelling, statistical analyes, and data visualization * Automation of reproducible workflows in big data multi user environments * Conception, setup, maintenance and administration of lab compute/file servers

  • Research Assistant at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPI-MG)
    Jun 2011 - Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    * Design and implementation of bioinformatic pipelines in the context of neuropsychiatric diseases, especially Alzheimer’s Disease * Day-to-day handling of genome-wide data (hundreds of GBs) * Process automation and parallelization (incl. grid computing)