Summary
Erik Pfeiffenberger is a Senior Staff Engineer with 16 years of experience blending machine learning research and production engineering across biotech and industrial domains. Holding a PhD in bioinformatics, he transitioned from postdoctoral work on deep learning for protein structure and interaction prediction to industrial ML roles at BMW and Infineon, where he leads projects on predictive systems and model industrialisation. He has deep expertise in temporal and convolutional neural networks applied to molecular dynamics and manufacturing sensor data, and has built large-scale pre-processing pipelines for terabyte-scale datasets. Known for translating academic advances into robust production solutions, he also trains teams in hands-on Python and ML practices. Based in Villach, Austria, he combines domain knowledge in structural biology with practical experience deploying ML at scale, making him equally at home in research collaborations and industrialisation efforts.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics at Nanyang Technological University
University College London
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bioinformatics at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München / University of Munich
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Bioinformatics at Technische Universität München / Technical University of Munich