Summary
Bede Constantinides is a computational researcher and bioinformatician with 12 years' experience building scalable, accurate genomic epidemiology tools to track infectious disease. He has led development and validation of production-grade host-depletion and surveillance platforms (e.g., Hostile, GPAS/EIT Pathogena) and helped establish the UK’s first ISO-accredited surge sequencing service using Oxford Nanopore technology. His work spans academic and industry settings—University of Oxford, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and University of Birmingham—focusing on real-time, privacy-preserving (meta)genomic analysis and pangenome-aware methods. Bede combines deep algorithmic expertise from a PhD in Bioinformatics with hands-on systems engineering to ship open-source workflows used for national surveillance and client deployments. He also built validated reference resources for SARS-CoV-2 variant calling, reflecting a rare mix of methodological rigor and operational delivery. Based in Oxford, he continually pushes for scalable, reproducible tools that make sequencing actionable in public-health contexts.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at The University of Manchester
Taunton School
French, English