Kristofer Davie
Head Of Single Cell Bioinformatics Expertise Unit (CBD)
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolKristofer Davie is a bioinformatician and leader with 11 years of experience, currently heading the Single Cell Bioinformatics Expertise Unit at VIB where he provides single-cell and spatial analysis support, training, and infrastructure management for 14 labs. He combines deep expertise in sc/snRNA-seq, scATAC-seq and spatial technologies with practical wet-lab experience and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from KU Leuven. Kristofer develops community tools such as SCope and VSN-Pipelines, runs bioinformatics and AI seminars, and administers compute resources and software stacks on the Flemish Supercomputer Center. Known for making single-cell data broadly accessible, he also mentors junior bioinformaticians and coordinates data deposition to public repositories. Outside work he pursues hands-on tinkering with computer hardware, reflecting a practical curiosity that informs both tool development and infrastructure decisions.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Sciences, General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Sciences, General at KU LeuvenBachelor of Science - BS, Forensic Biology, Upper Second Class with Honours, Bachelor of Science - BS, Forensic Biology, Upper Second Class with Honours at Teesside University
Github Skills (70)
seq10
gene-expression10
single-cell-analysis10
rna-seq10
aws10
nextflow9
pipeline9
scale9
grpc9
data-visualization9
pipeline-framework9
genomics9
visualization9
bioinformatics9
python-bindings9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
aertslab/SCope
Feb 2018 - Mar 2022
Fast visualization tool for large-scale and high dimensional single-cell data
Contributions:15 releases, 50 reviews, 767 commits in 4 years 1 month
large-scale-data-visualizationgene-regulatory-networkgene-expressiongrpcdimensional
KrisDavie/alttptracker
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
ALTTP Randomizer Tracker
Contributions:12 PRs, 137 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
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