David Speck
Senior Scientist at CRELUX, a WuXi AppTec Company
Gräfelfing, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Speck is a senior scientist and protein biochemist with a decade of experience specializing in membrane proteins, notably GPCRs and ion channels, and currently leading expression and characterization efforts at CRELUX. He earned a Dr. rer. nat. magna cum laude and built robust pipelines from gene to structure during a fast-paced PhD at Charité, contributing to multiple cryo-EM structures and managing multidisciplinary projects under tight deadlines. As head of cell culture he ensured quality across five cell lines, coordinated a small team, mentored students, and implemented SOPs and internal databases to raise lab standards. Pragmatic about experimental rigor, he pairs hands-on protein engineering and purification expertise with a growing fluency in AI tools (AlphaFold, ChatGPT) and Python to accelerate protein design and drug discovery. An adaptable collaborator, he thrives at the interface of academia and industry, shifting techniques from crystallography to cryo-EM as projects demanded.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Biochemistry, 1.1, Master of Science - MS, Biochemistry, 1.1 at Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)Dr. rer. nat., Biochemistry, Magna cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Biochemistry, Magna cum laude at Freie Universität BerlinBachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry, 2.1, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry, 2.1 at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
German, English
Github Skills (8)
planning10
partitioning8
probabilistic7
sym7
machine-learning4
validation2
linux2
php2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
speckdavid/symbolic-osp
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
speckdavid/speckdavid.github.io
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:82 pushes in 3 years
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