Summary
Etienne Sollier is a software engineer with eight years of experience who combines academic rigor from a PhD in computational cancer epigenomics with practical engineering at Akur8. He has deep expertise in processing and integrating diverse (epi)genomics data—WGS, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, Hi-C and nanopore—and has turned that work into publications and reusable tooling, including figeno and workflow repositories built with Nextflow and Snakemake. Trained at École Polytechnique, ETH Zürich and Heidelberg, he moves comfortably between research-grade analyses and production software practices. Based in Paris, he brings a rare mix of high-accuracy bioinformatics, workflow automation, and ML-prototyping experience applied to complex cancer genomics problems.
8 years of coding experience
Engineer's degree, Bioinformatics, 3.91/4, Engineer's degree, Bioinformatics, 3.91/4 at École Polytechnique
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Heidelberg University
Preparation for the competitive entrance to the French Grandes Ecoles d'Ingénieur, Mathematics, Preparation for the competitive entrance to the French Grandes Ecoles d'Ingénieur, Mathematics at Lycée Blaise Pascal (Orsay)
Master's degree, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 5.75/6, Master's degree, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 5.75/6 at ETH Zürich
French, English, German