Erik Fasterius
Senior Bioinformatician
Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolErik Fasterius is a Senior Bioinformatician with 11 years of experience, currently at NBIS Sweden, specializing in transcriptomics, reproducible pipeline development, and data visualization. He combines a PhD in Biotechnology with hands-on experience in cancer biology, drug screening, cell line authentication, and applied machine learning, giving him fluency across both computational and wet-lab perspectives. Erik builds robust, reproducible workflows and tooling that bridge research and production analytics, with a strong interest in making complex analyses transparent and shareable. Based in Stockholm, he is an active open-source practitioner (fasterius on GitHub) and maintains a personal site showcasing tools and projects that emphasize reproducibility and clear visual communication.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biotechnology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biotechnology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (129)
variants10
package-management10
image-processing10
testing10
spatial-transcriptomics10
seq10
immunology10
transcriptomics10
gene-expression10
spatial10
genomics10
nf-core10
microscopy10
hex10
slime10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
nf-core/spatialvi
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Pipeline for processing spatially-resolved gene counts with spatial coordinates and image data. Designed for 10x Genomics Visium transcriptomics.
Contributions:33 reviews, 69 commits, 73 PRs in 8 months
spatial-transcriptomicsspatialcountsbioinformaticssingle-cell-rna-seq
fasterius/test-datasets
Sep 2020 - Apr 2024
Test data to be used for automated testing with the nf-core pipelines
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
nf-coretest-dataautomated-testingpipelinetesting
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