Lukas Forer
Assistant Professor Of Genome Informatics
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
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Top SchoolLukas Forer is an Assistant Professor of Genome Informatics based in Innsbruck, Austria, with 13 years of experience building bioinformatics and cloud-based solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and progressed from a long postdoctoral tenure in genetic epidemiology to a faculty role, combining research rigor with production-quality software engineering. Lukas focuses on scalable genomics pipelines, Big Data analytics, and cloud computing, and enjoys crafting scientific applications that are both efficient and well designed. His work bridges algorithmic innovation and practical deployment for biomedical research, often emphasizing reproducibility and performance. Notably, he maintains an active developer mindset alongside academic responsibilities, making tools that researchers can reliably run at scale.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck
German, Italian, English
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Github Skills (62)
genome10
testing10
imputation10
plug10
nextflow10
caller10
robot10
gwas10
panels10
user-experience10
test-automation10
singularity9
slurm9
test-framework9
graphical-user-interface9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
UPPMAX/cloudgene
Jul 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:41 commits in 1 year 2 months
aimclustersimport-and-exportuser-interfaceintegrated
genepi/cloudgene-docker
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:10 releases, 10 pushes, 12 tags in 2 years 11 months
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