Summary
Julian Zaugg is a Senior Bioinformatician and software developer with 12 years’ experience applying computational methods to microbial genomics and protein engineering at the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics. He leads bioinformatics support teams and maintains sequencing infrastructure and reference databases for amplicon, metagenomic and long-read workflows, while also developing software tools to accelerate research. Julian combines practical data analysis, machine-learning and molecular modelling to extract biological insight from experimental datasets, and has a track record mentoring students in microbial genomics and bioinformatics. With a PhD in Bioinformatics and a background in building performant Python/Cython tools, he blends academic rigor with production-focused engineering to deliver reproducible, scalable solutions for sequencing services.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at The University of Queensland