Harald Vöhringer
Senior Scientist at Novartis
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolHarald Vöhringer is a Senior Scientist with 11 years of experience at the intersection of computational biology and molecular research, currently leading analytical efforts at Novartis after postdoctoral work at EMBL/Uniklinik Heidelberg and a PhD at EMBL-EBI/Cambridge. He specializes in sequence analysis, probabilistic modeling and scalable algorithm design, translating large-scale sequencing data into actionable biological insights. His background spans academic tool development (including contributions to the HH-suite ecosystem) and methodological work applying statistics and machine learning to complex biological systems. Based in Basel, he blends deep domain knowledge in molecular biology with strong software and mathematical skills, driven by a fascination for elegant algorithms that make modern high-throughput biology tractable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology at University of CambridgeBachelor's Degree, Molecular Medicine, Bachelor's Degree, Molecular Medicine at Georg-August-Universität GöttingenMaster’s Degree, Molecular Biology, Master’s Degree, Molecular Biology at International Max Planck Research SchoolOperationstechnische Assistenz, Operationstechnische Assistenz at Akademie für Gesundheitsberufe
English, German
Github Skills (36)
viterbi9
variational-autoencoder8
signature8
bioinformatics8
hierarchical7
structural-biology7
visualization7
tsne7
single-cell-analysis6
autoencoder6
cpp5
data-visualization5
protein-structure5
density-estimation5
topological-data-analysis5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sagar87/tensorsignatures
Aug 2019 - Jul 2020
Tensorframework for mutational signature analysis.
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
signaturetensorflowsignature-analysis
sagar87/scPCA
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 releases, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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