Raúl Wijfjes

Postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

I develop and apply state-of-the-art computational methods to explore the interplay between genomic variation and phenotypic variation in plants, with an emphasis on the role of structural variation.

Experience

  • Postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

    Group: Schneeberger lab (https://schneebergerlab.org/members/). Research focus: Assembling and comparing genomes of the Brassicaceae lineage

  • PhD candidate at Wageningen University & Research
    Sep 2016 - Nov 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Worked on the project "Exploitation of Copy Number Variation for rapid improvement of abiotic stress tolerance in crops": http://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/research-projects/i/79/25979.html

  • Intern at Platomics GmbH
    Mar 2016 - Jul 2016 · 5 mos

    During this internship, my task was to develop a RNA-seq differential expression analysis pipeline and develop it into a web-application usable on the Platomics platform.

  • Tutor at Bijlesbureau StudentsPlus Nederland
    Oct 2015 - Mar 2016 · 6 mos

    Subjects: chemistry, physics and mathematics.

  • Tutor at Independent
    Sep 2009 - Sep 2014 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    Tutored VWO students in the subjects of Physics and English