Introduction:

Originally a Biologist and an amateur programmer, I took on professional programming while pursuing my PhD, to become a full-fledged Bioinformatician. My Software Engineering Master's thesis was 'Processing Next-Generation Sequencing data using Hadoop', and I have a PhD in Molecular Biology with some Bioinformatics. I joined Gerhardt Informatics in early 2016 as a part-time employee, shortly after finishing my second university degree (MSc) in Software Engineering. This evolved into being a full time developer by mid 2016, and one year later in mid 2017, I moved to Stuttgart with my wife, and became the right hand of Frank. Currently I'm doing a lot of non-programming duties as well, for example managing our internship programme, project management, brainstorming with Frank, and in general grooming a large part of the company's everyday life. In April 2019, I started the ComBINeS (Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Network Stuttgart -https://www.meetup.com/combines/) and later the Chatbots Stuttgart (https://www.meetup.com/ChatbotStuttgart/) meetup groups. We have meetings in our office about every month. Recently, in late 2019, I started working on a bioinformatics related project in my free time, that has launched in February 2020. You can check it out at: https://data-hub.info (the project website) and the live service is at: https://bio.data-hub.info . My personal homepage: https://np-bio.info . Besides coding I like photography, I have an entry level DSLR, and mix music for fun.