Florian Uhlitz
Computational Biology Team Lead
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFlorian Uhlitz is a computational biology team lead in New York with 11 years of experience turning single-cell and spatial omics into actionable insights for cancer and immunology research. He has progressed from wet‑lab roles to a PhD-trained computational biologist and postdoctoral researcher, now leading deep analytics teams at Immunai. Florian specializes in transcriptomics, single-cell RNA and whole-genome single-cell analyses, as well as imaging mass cytometry, with applied work across ovarian, lung, and colorectal cancers. He combines rigorous computational modeling with domain expertise from top research centers including Charité, DKFZ and Memorial Sloan Kettering. Known for translating complex datasets into biologically meaningful stories, he also brings hands-on experience bridging experimental and computational workflows. Colleagues rely on him to steer projects from methodological innovation to impact-driven analysis in translational oncology.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate School, Graduate School at Berlin School of Integrative OncologyDr. rer. nat. (PhD) Theoretical Biology, Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Theoretical Biology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Github Skills (48)
r-package10
tidymodels10
tibble10
bioinformatics10
r9
tidyverse9
ggplot9
dplyr9
tidy9
tsne9
knitr9
literate-programming9
rmarkdown9
bookdown8
css8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
uhlitz/uhlitz.github.io
Jul 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
uhlitz/reportr
Jan 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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