Jonas Björkman
Molecular Biologist at Region Skåne
Malmo, Sweden
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Top SchoolJonas Björkman is a molecular biologist and bioinformatician with 11+ years of hands-on experience implementing NGS/WGS for bacterial surveillance and diagnostics across clinical and public-health settings. He has led adoption of whole-genome sequencing workflows for prokaryotes at Region Skåne and previously implemented WGS-based Listeria surveillance at Statens Serum Institut, where he also maintained typing databases and curated European molecular surveillance resources. Jonas pairs deep wet-lab expertise and a PhD in microbiology with strong programming and sysadmin skills, enabling end-to-end pipelines from sequencing to actionable analysis. Colleagues praise his teamwork, practical creativity and knack for troubleshooting—from inventing novel methods to writing the scripts that make them work in production. Based in Malmö, he brings a rare blend of operational reliability and scientific curiosity that drives reproducible public-health genomics.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Microbiology, PhD, Microbiology at Lund University
English, Danish
Github Skills (33)
pipeline8
nextflow8
bash7
boxplot7
python7
jekyll6
jekyll-theme5
linuxbrew5
bioinformatics4
github-pages4
genomics4
addon4
sequence4
bacteria4
homebrew3
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
LordRust/mailgun_automation
Feb 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
LordRust/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Jul 2026
Contributions:247 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 5 months
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