Katharina Hayer
Bioinformatics Scientist III
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolKatharina Hayer is a Bioinformatics Scientist III with 14 years of experience analyzing high-throughput biological data and building reproducible methods and workflows, currently based at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She has progressed through increasing scientific and technical responsibility there since 2016 and brings deep hands-on expertise translating complex genomic and biomedical engineering problems into production-ready analyses. A Drexel PhD candidate in Biomedical/Medical Engineering, she blends rigorous academic training with practical hospital-centered bioinformatics, enabling efficient collaboration between clinicians and computational teams. Known for developing scalable pipelines and analytical methods, she focuses on reliability and reproducibility in large-scale data environments—a skill honed across research and clinical settings that is often underappreciated in bioinformatics roles.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD canditate, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, PhD canditate, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health SystemsBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bioinformatics at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen / University of Tuebingen
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
faunadb9
database7
transcriptomics4
bioinformatics4
seq4
cancer-genomics4
biomedical4
variants4
orange4
visualization3
scatter-plot3
rna-seq1
genomics1
go1
mapper1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
khayer/mutations_caller_pipeline_aws
Feb 2012 - Jun 2017
Contributions:187 commits, 85 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
khayer/rna_seq_standard_pipeline
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:136 commits, 206 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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