Folker Meyer
Professor at University of Duisburg-Essen
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolFolker Meyer is a Professor of Medicine and Computer Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen and founder of a data science lab within the Institute for AI in Medicine (IKIM), focusing on efficient, reproducible, and sustainable Data Science with a OneHealth emphasis. With 14 years of experience spanning academia and national labs, he brings deep expertise in computational biology from prior roles at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. He bridges medical research, environmental concerns via affiliation with the Center for Water and the Environment, and computer science to tackle cross-disciplinary problems. Known for promoting reproducibility and sustainability in data-driven research, he combines rigorous PhD-trained CS foundations with practical leadership in applied AI for healthcare.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Bielefeld University
Github Skills (44)
protein-sequences10
json-schema10
data-import10
specification10
minimum10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
sequence10
reproducible-science9
resource-management9
data-management9
pipeline9
api9
database9
backend9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
IKIM-Essen/ClusterDocs
Jul 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:7 reviews, 4 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 years 5 months
folker/Shock
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
An object store for scientific data
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 88 pushes in 1 day
object-storedatabasescientific-datascientific
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