Gudmundur Thorisson
Bioinformatics Specialist
Iceland
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Top SchoolGudmundur Thorisson is a bioinformatics specialist with 14 years of experience applying software and data-wrangling skills to large-scale genomic and research identity projects. Currently at deCODE genetics, he brings deep expertise in genomic data management, QC workflows and Unix/Perl-based tooling rooted in earlier roles at Cold Spring Harbor and deCODE. His background spans academia and EU research programs—building informatics resources for genotype–phenotype studies during a PhD at the University of Leicester and coordinating ORCID-related interoperability work for ODIN. Comfortable bridging research and production, he combines hands-on scientific programming with project coordination and web development, and has a longstanding focus on making high-throughput biological data discoverable and reusable. An Iceland-based practitioner, he pairs classical population genetics training with practical systems experience acquired over two decades in genomic data infrastructures.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computational biology and population genetics, BSc, Computational biology and population genetics at Háskóli ÍslandsPhD, Bioinformatics, PhD, Bioinformatics at University of LeicesterDiploma, Natural sciences, Diploma, Natural sciences at Menntaskólinn á Akureyri
Github Skills (5)
datacite5
orcid5
omniauth3
database2
orm1
Github contributions (5)
gthorisson/ORCID-example-client-app-rails
Apr 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:21 commits in 11 months
ORCID-EU-Labs/ISNI-ORCID
Sep 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:39 commits in 6 months
identifiersorcidlinking
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