Christ Leemans
Postdoctoral Researcher at Leiden University Medical Center
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolChrist Leemans is a computational biologist and postdoctoral researcher with 13 years of experience applying machine learning and bioinformatics to dissect how chromatin organization influences transcription and DNA repair. He combines rigorous experimental intuition—questioning what exactly is being measured—with practical engineering, building reproducible pipelines in Snakemake, Python, and R to turn complex genomics data into interpretable results. Trained in bioinformatics and biomedical sciences, his trajectory spans academia and international collaborations, including work at Leiden University Medical Center and The Netherlands Cancer Institute. Christ’s approach emphasizes methodological clarity and tailored processing strategies, often revealing subtle measurement artifacts that change biological interpretation.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Biomedical Sciences, Bachelor's degree, Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht UniversityMaster's degree, Bioinformatics, Master's degree, Bioinformatics at Wageningen University
Github Skills (3)
r-package5
git-repository3
pipeline2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
christlee/SuRE-GLM-shiny
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
vansteensellab/DSB_TRIP_protocol
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
git repository to accompany Schep et al. 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
git-repository
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