Björn Koel
Coordinator Reference Centre Viroscience
Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolBjörn Koel is an experienced molecular virologist and coordinator at the Reference Centre Viroscience with eight years of focused work spanning academic research and the biopharmaceutical sector. He combines deep expertise in virology, NGS, bioinformatics and assay development with a proven track record of leading interdisciplinary teams and coordinating international projects. His PhD work uncovered how single amino-acid changes drive influenza antigenic evolution, and he built NGS pipelines and novel bioinformatics tools for longitudinal clinical studies. Colleagues value him as factual, decisive and results-oriented, able to translate complex science across disciplines and stakeholders. Outside the lab he channels the same persistence into long-distance trail running, currently training for an ultra-marathon.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Biomedical Sciences, Master of Science - MSc, Biomedical Sciences at Utrecht UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (ing.), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Applied Science (ing.), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
divprasad/1DconvKernels
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 5 months
divprasad/spotify-downloader
Apr 2021 - Jan 2025
Download Spotify playlists with albumart and meta-tags
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 10 months
metaspotifymeta-tagsspotify-playlistsplaylists
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