Benedikt Rauscher is an associate director specializing in safety data analytics with 11 years of experience bridging bioinformatics research and post-marketing pharmacovigilance. He holds a PhD in bioinformatics and has led global safety signal detection, validated system ownership, and benefit–risk analytics in GxP/GVP environments at Merck and now BioNTech. He combines statistical modeling and machine learning expertise from academic genomics and EMBL postdoctoral work with practical deployment of NoSQL-backed pipelines, dashboards (Spotfire, Tableau) and Oracle Empirica for regulated signal management. As a business process owner he’s driven AI use-case development for safety surveillance and served as an SME in audits and inspections, ensuring data-driven, auditable safety decisions. Based in Mainz, Germany, he is equally fluent in hands-on pipeline development and cross-functional governance, enabling rapid translation of complex biological data into regulatory-ready insights.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Heidelberg University
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics at Technical University of Munich
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Benedikt Rauscher - Associate Director, Safety Data Analytics