Summary
Hugues Fontenelle is a Principal Bioinformatics Architect based in Oslo with 12 years of experience building production-ready computational pipelines and software for personalized immunotherapy and rare disease genomics. He blends hands-on coding, product and project management, and team leadership to take translational genomics tools from vision through IEC 62304-compliant roadmaps to deployed clinical analyses. His background spans academic research, medical device validation, and HPC-enabled algorithm implementation, giving him a rare fluency between wet-lab clinicians and software engineers. Hugues’s work emphasizes automation and ML-driven decision support for variant classification and vaccine personalization, and he has repeatedly led cross-disciplinary teams to turn research methods into robust clinical products. An Executive MBA and continued upskilling in bioinformatics and pharma informatics complement his technical depth with strategic product thinking.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Quantic School of Business and Technology
(Erasmus), (Erasmus) at National Hospital of Norway, Oslo
Geilo Winter School 2017: Machine Learning
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, PhD, Biomedical Engineering at University of Patras
MOOC (Coursera, EdX) & Professional Training (PluralSight)
Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics, Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics at Uppsala University
MSc, Computer Engineering, MSc, Computer Engineering at ECAM, Brussels
(Inter-university exchange), (Inter-university exchange) at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
English, French, Greek, Italian, Norwegian