Jonas Zaugg
Postdoctoral Researcher (PhD) at University of Zurich
Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJonas Zaugg is a Postdoctoral Researcher with over a decade of interdisciplinary experience probing how parental metabolic health shapes placental function and fetal development. Trained with a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Universität Bern and shaped by research at Cambridge and Zurich, he builds biochemical and cell-biological in vitro models that bridge clinical obstetrics and mechanistic lab science. His work targets clinically relevant questions—such as effects of parental obesity and gestational diabetes—aimed at informing strategies to improve maternal and perinatal outcomes. Beyond wet-lab expertise, Jonas applies automation and build-release engineering skills to open-source projects (notably improving macOS packaging and CI workflows for Sparkle and contributing stability fixes to the Fuzi Swift parser), demonstrating a rare blend of bench science and reproducible software tooling. He is active in academic community roles supporting postdoctoral family engagement, reflecting commitment to translational impact and researcher wellbeing. This combination of translational placental biology and practical engineering makes him adept at turning clinical observations into scalable experimental systems and reproducible outputs.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of molecular life sciences (MLS), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of molecular life sciences (MLS), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNWMaster of Science UZH in Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Master of Science UZH in Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biology at Universität ZürichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Universität Bern
German, English, French
Github Skills (33)
application-framework10
scripting10
css10
app-framework10
bash10
software-update10
swift-package-manager10
cicd10
regular-expression10
automation10
script10
html-parsing10
xml-parsing10
sh10
swift-package10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cezheng/Fuzi
Jun 2016 - Feb 2020
A fast & lightweight XML & HTML parser in Swift with XPath & CSS support
Role in this project:
iOS Developer / Parser Engineer
iOS Developer / Parser EngineerContributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 16 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jonas primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the Fuzi library, a Swift-based XML and HTML parser. Their contributions included fixing regex matching issues within the XPath implementation, adding support for multiple CSS attributes, and writing corresponding tests. They also updated the codebase to comply with changes in Xcode versions, adapting to newer Swift versions. Finally, they added support for Swift Package Manager and made related adjustments.
html-parsingxml-parsingcssxmlhtml-parser
sparkle-project/Sparkle
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
A software update framework for macOS
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 33 commits, 6 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jonas primarily focused on improving the build and release process for the Sparkle framework, specifically for Swift Package Manager (SPM). They implemented support for SPM binary targets, generating and integrating checksums, and updating the `Package.swift` manifest. The user also created scripts to automate the packaging process and manage Git tags, including checks for semantic versioning. These contributions streamlined the release workflow for the macOS software update framework.
macosupdateframeworksoftware-update
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