Anders Lanzen
Senior Scientist at Ikerbasque
Pasai San Pedro, Basque Country, Spain
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Top SchoolAnders Lanzen is a senior scientist and IKERBASQUE associate professor with over a decade of experience applying genomics, bioinformatics and machine learning to marine and estuarine ecological monitoring. He leads the MicroMon project at AZTI—overseeing a multidisciplinary team and international collaborators—to develop eDNA-based bioindicators and computational tools that reveal how multiple stressors reshape microbial community structure and function. With a PhD from the University of Bergen and a 20-year research trajectory spanning metabarcoding, metagenomics and metatranscriptomics, he combines deep computational sequence-analysis expertise with hands-on field-centric biomonitoring. Anders has authored 70 peer-reviewed papers (h-index 40), supervised multiple graduate theses, and plays a key role in the NORCE-coordinated MetaBridge genomics biomonitoring initiative, highlighting his ability to translate methods into operational environmental assessment.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, etc, Software Engineering, etc at The University of QueenslandDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology and Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology and Bioinformatics at University of Bergen (UiB)MSc, Engineering Biology, MSc, Engineering Biology at Linköping UniversityUNSW Sydney
English, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Basque
Github Skills (22)
latex9
fasta8
javafx8
microbiome8
bibtex8
java8
academia8
chimera8
bioinformatics7
fastq7
metagenomics7
citation7
clustering6
bibliography6
biblatex6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lanzen/CREST
Dec 2014 - Mar 2022
Contributions:13 releases, 116 commits, 97 pushes in 7 years 4 months
lanzen/Garate_et_al_2022_data
Aug 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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