Summary
Celine Hernandez is a scientific and operational leader with 11+ years coordinating high-end core facilities at I2BC, now heading its 17-facility Core Facilities Department across sequencing, proteomics, biophysics, structural biology, imaging and integrative bioinformatics. She also serves as Scientific Director of an advanced High Throughput Sequencing facility with deep expertise in long-read Oxford Nanopore technologies, direct RNA sequencing and epitranscriptomics. Her background blends hands-on bioinformatics and proteome informatics with strategic facility management, enabling workflows from tissue and single-cell resolution down to single-molecule analyses. Celine’s career spans academic and service labs including ENS, Institut Curie and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, reflecting a rare mix of research, technology development and user-focused service. She holds a PhD in Genome Sciences and a longstanding interest in connecting method development to large-scale, reproducible biological discovery. Colleagues describe her strength as translating cutting-edge sequencing capabilities into accessible, high-throughput platforms for diverse scientific communities.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genome Sciences/Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genome Sciences/Genomics at Ecole normale supérieure
DEUG -> Maîtrise, Biomathematics, DEUG -> Maîtrise, Biomathematics at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
DESS, Informatics applied to Biology, DESS, Informatics applied to Biology at UVSQ Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
French, English, Dutch, Japanese