Johannes Smolander
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Helsinki
Turku, Mainland Finland
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Top SchoolJohannes Smolander is a bioinformatician and postdoctoral researcher based in Turku with a decade of experience applying NGS and single-cell analysis to hematology and immuno-oncology. He earned a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Turku after MSc/BS training in biomathematics and computational biology, and has shaped new scRNA-seq analysis methods during his doctoral work. At Turku Bioscience he developed and maintained NGS pipelines and supported cross-institutional projects across RNA-, DNA-, ATAC- and miRNA-seq, bringing both methodological rigor and practical service delivery. Now at the University of Helsinki’s HRUH and HaikaLab, he combines translational research with computational innovation to probe immune-oncology questions. Colleagues value his ability to bridge hands-on pipeline engineering with method development—often surfacing insights that improve reproducibility and downstream interpretation.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Master of Science - MS, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018Technischen Universität DarmstadtDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Turun yliopisto - University of Turku
Finnish, English, German, Swedish
Github Skills (25)
genome9
sequencing9
genomics8
genetic8
seq8
bioinformatics8
bioconductor7
science7
rna-seq7
pipeline6
tensorflow5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
high-resolution5
react4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
elolab/multisubjectDSanalysis
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:58 commits, 45 pushes in 7 months
elolab/ILoReg
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
A tool for high-resolution cell population identification from single-cell RNA-seq data
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 1 month
resolutionhigh-resolutionbioinformaticsrna-seqrna-seq-data
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