Åsa Björklund
Bioinformatician
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolÅsa Björklund is a seasoned bioinformatician based in Stockholm with over a decade of experience applying computational methods to biological data, especially single-cell analyses. She has a strong academic foundation from Stockholm and Uppsala Universities and progressed from PhD research to postdoctoral work before joining SciLifeLab, where she now supports national bioinformatics services. Åsa blends hands-on analysis and pipeline development with teaching and user support, making complex single-cell workflows accessible to researchers. Her long tenure at SciLifeLab/NBIS reflects deep institutional knowledge of Swedish life-science infrastructure and collaborative service delivery. An uncommon strength is her multilingual background and early experience in regulatory bioinformatics, which give her a pragmatic perspective on usability and reproducibility in research.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Civ. Ing, Molecular Biotechnology, Civ. Ing, Molecular Biotechnology at Uppsala UniversitySpanish, Spanish at Universitat de BarcelonaStockholm University
Github Skills (27)
cookbook10
seq10
sequencing10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
edtech9
pypi9
web-development9
fasta9
data-analysis8
bioconda8
fastq8
aggregate8
python7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NBISweden/excelerate-scRNAseq
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
Single RNA-seq data analysis with R (Finland, May, 2019)
Contributions:50 commits, 37 PRs, 47 pushes in 6 months
data-analysisrnaseqfinlandrna-seq-datarna-seq
NBISweden/workshop-scRNAseq
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Single cell RNA sequencing analysis course
Contributions:389 commits, 16 PRs, 246 pushes in 4 years 9 months
single-cell-rna-sequencingsequencinggenomicsbioinformaticsrna-seq
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