Benjamin Schuster-böckler
Associate Professor
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenjamin Schuster-böckler is an associate professor and principal investigator at the University of Oxford with 14 years of experience at the intersection of cancer genomics and computational biology, authoring 21 publications with an h-index of 16 and over 4,000 citations. He leads a 12-person research group that develops algorithms for early cancer detection and prognosis, with particular expertise in mutagenesis, epigenetics and liquid biopsies, and has secured ~£2M in grant funding. Previously an entrepreneur and senior iOS developer, he founded and exited a mobile startup and built commercial apps, bringing product, fundraising and engineering fluency to his academic leadership. His career uniquely combines deep computational genomics insight with hands-on product development, enabling translational projects that bridge high-throughput data analysis and real-world clinical applications.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Bioinformatics, BSc, Bioinformatics at Freie Universität BerlinPhD, Biology, PhD, Biology at University of CambridgeAbitur, Mathematics, History, Abitur, Mathematics, History at Albert Einstein Gymnasium München
English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (200)
dataflow10
slurm10
image-processing10
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heic10
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libvips10
reproducible-science10
bam10
singularity10
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nextflow10
pipeline10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
seversond12/BEARscc
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:26 commits in 4 months
DaGaMs/ichorCNA
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
Estimating tumor fraction in cell-free DNA from ultra-low-pass whole genome sequencing.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 9 months
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