Clément Helsens
Senior Data Manager Image Analyst Bioinformatician
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolClément Helsens is a PhD physicist turned Senior Data Manager, Image Analyst and Bioinformatician with 12 years of experience applying advanced ML and data science to large-scale scientific experiments. After a decade at CERN—contributing to ATLAS work recognized by the 2025 Breakthrough Prize—he now leads image analysis and bioinformatics efforts at EPFL, bridging particle-physics rigor with life-science data challenges. He combines deep expertise in statistical inference, high-throughput data pipelines and image-based ML to turn complex experimental datasets into actionable insights. Based in Lausanne, he is comfortable shipping research-grade tools into production environments and translating methodological advances into reproducible workflows. Unusually for a physicist, his current focus blends microscopy and bioinformatics rather than collider hardware, highlighting a talent for cross-disciplinary reinvention.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Research Doctorate, particle physics, Research Doctorate, particle physics at Université Paris-Saclay
French, English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (66)
python10
energy10
collider10
abstract-interpretation10
event-data10
ssa10
physics10
tuple9
structural-variation9
genomics9
simulation9
pairwise9
bayesian9
data-model8
particle-physics8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
FCC-hh-framework/FCChhAnalyses
Jun 2017 - Dec 2018
FCC-hh physics Analyses usign heppy
Contributions:112 commits, 26 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 5 months
physicspythonanalysesfccphysics-analyses
clementhelsens/FCCSimJobs
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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