Hansi Weißensteiner
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoktorand) at Medizinische Universität Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
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Top SchoolHansi Weißensteiner is a pragmatic computer scientist and bioinformatician with 11 years of experience applying computational methods to mitochondrial DNA research as a postdoctoral researcher at the Medical University of Innsbruck. He combines rigorous academic training (Dr. techn. and degrees in computer science from Innsbruck and Copenhagen) with a decade-long track record in bioinformatics and medical documentation. His work focuses on deciphering mitochondrial genetics—self-described as "searching for the algorithm of life"—bringing algorithmic thinking to biological questions. Based in Innsbruck, he bridges research and applied tooling, developing reproducible pipelines and analytical frameworks for genomics. Colleagues know him for translating complex biological problems into pragmatic, performant software solutions. He also maintains an active research presence on GitHub tied to his institutional work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenDr. techn., Informatik, Dr. techn., Informatik at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck
German, English, Italian
Github Skills (23)
caller10
classification9
bioinformatics9
phylogeny8
variants8
genome7
sequencing6
genomics5
python3
workbench2
seq1
plug1
mapreduce1
standardized1
docker1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
haansi/mitolib
Oct 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 111 commits, 37 pushes in 6 years 2 months
haansi/greenVC
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:8 releases, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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