Luuk Harbers
Staff Scientist at VIB
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolLuuk Harbers is a staff scientist and bioinformatics leader with seven years of experience translating genomics research into computational solutions across top academic centers in Europe and the US. He led the Bioinformatics Expertise Center at VIB - KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology and completed a Marie Skłodowska Curie PhD in Genome Sciences at Karolinska Institutet, including a visiting research stint at MD Anderson. His work blends hands‑on pipeline development—such as single-cell Strand-seq structural rearrangement detection—with strategic team leadership to support cancer genomics projects. Based in Leuven, he combines deep domain knowledge in biomedical sciences with practical experience building reproducible analyses for translational research.
7 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Genome Sciences/Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Genome Sciences/Genomics at Karolinska InstitutetMaster's degree Biomedical Sciences, Master's degree Biomedical Sciences at University of Groningen
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (41)
test-data10
package-management10
testing10
conda10
nextflow10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
nf-core10
docker9
bioconda9
transcriptomics8
sequencing8
singularity8
structural-variation7
pipeline7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ljwharbers/bioconda-recipes
Feb 2025 - Jul 2026
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:48 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 5 months
IntGenomicsLab/lrsomatic
Feb 2025 - Jul 2026
Workflow for somatic variant calling of long read data
Contributions:52 reviews, 49 PRs, 151 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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