Christian Schäfers
Head Of NGS at Hamburg Public Laboratories for Food Safety, Health Protection and Environmental Assessment
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Schäfers is a Head of NGS with 25 years of hands-on experience building end-to-end genomics infrastructure, from wet lab operations to scalable bioinformatics pipelines. Based in Hamburg, he has led on-site bioinformatics teams, established NGS technology platforms, and driven production-grade workflows for genomics, metagenomics and metatranscriptomics used in published studies. He combines academic rigor—Dr. rer. nat. in Molecular Genetics and years as a lecturer and project leader—with practical lab leadership at Hamburg Public Laboratories where he scaled staff, tech and data solutions for public health and environmental assessment. A pragmatic computational biologist, he also contributes to open-source software (notably back-end improvements to the well-known GnuCash project), reflecting a breadth that spans scientific computing and core software engineering. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex sequencing problems into reproducible pipelines and for mentoring teams to operate NGS at municipal and industrial scales.
25 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat., Molecular Genetics, magna cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Molecular Genetics, magna cum laude at Ruhr University Bochum
English, French, German
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
xml6
graphical-user-interface5
ui-design5
user-interface5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Gnucash/gnucash
May 2001 - Mar 2021
GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 3325 commits, 12 PRs in 20 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christian made several contributions to the GnuCash project, primarily focusing on improving the existing codebase and adding new features within the context of the core functionality of the financial management software. They addressed issues related to data imports and exports, and also extended the functionality of the software's user interface. Their work involved changes in different parts of the codebase, as well as adjustments to the existing reports and core code.
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cstim/gnucash
May 2018 - Mar 2023
GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program.
Contributions:20 pushes, 6 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 10 months
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