Alexander Dilthey
Professor (W3-Universitätsprofessur) at Peptide Groove LLP
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Dilthey is a computational genomics professor and serial founder with 12+ years of experience developing algorithms and diagnostics for population-level sequencing, immunogenetics, long-read sequencing, microbiome analysis, and cell-free DNA. He leads a W3 professorship in Düsseldorf and co-founded two startups—one commercializing large-scale statistical HLA typing (licensed to ThermoFisher) and another building ctDNA-based cancer screening—bringing an unusual blend of deep statistical genetics (DPhil, Oxford) and product-focused commercialization. His work spans academic method development, real-time sequencing diagnostics (including SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology), and scalable tooling for millions of samples. Equally comfortable in the lab and the boardroom, he has a track record of translating noisy long-read data into robust clinical and population-level insights. An early internet entrepreneur and consultant, he pairs technical entrepreneurship with a strong grounding in computer science and innovation practice.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil, Statistical Genetics, DPhil, Statistical Genetics at University of OxfordScience Innovation Plus, Science Innovation Plus at University of Oxford - Said Business SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1.1, with distinction, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 1.1, with distinction at Heinrich-Heine-Universität DüsseldorfInternational relations & international law, International relations & international law at Université de Genève
English, German, French
Github Skills (41)
genome10
taxonomy10
package-management10
conda10
ncbi10
hla10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
bacteria10
metagenomics10
inference9
type-inference9
sequencing9
bioconda9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DiltheyLab/HLA-LA
Mar 2017 - Sep 2022
Fast HLA type inference from whole-genome data
Contributions:19 releases, 242 commits, 5 PRs in 5 years 6 months
hlagenomeinferencegenomicsbioinformatics
DiltheyLab/MetaMaps
Jul 2017 - Dec 2020
Long-read metagenomic analysis
Contributions:200 commits, 3 PRs, 64 pushes in 3 years 5 months
bacteriametagenomicsncbimetagenomic-analysisgenomics
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