Melania Nowicka
Research Scientist at Hasso Plattner Institute
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolMelania Nowicka is a research scientist with a decade of experience at the intersection of interpretable machine learning, synthetic biology, and antimicrobial resistance, currently leading work at the Hasso Plattner Institute after joint postdoctoral positions at HPI and MIT CSAIL. She holds a PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and has a strong track record translating computational methods into biological design and diagnostics, from discrete biomathematics in academia to applied data analytics in lab settings. Melania excels in interdisciplinary teams, combining software skills (Python, R, test automation) with domain expertise in genomics and synthetic genomics to produce reproducible, interpretable models. Notoriously curious, she has a history of teaching and mentoring—designing courses in metaheuristics and computational systems biology—and has guided award-winning iGEM projects. Her profile reflects a rare blend of theoretical rigor and hands-on implementation across research, tooling, and experimental collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Mary Magdalene High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics at Freie Universität BerlinMaster’s Degree, Bioinformatics, Master’s Degree, Bioinformatics at Poznan University of Technology
Polish, English, German
Github Skills (5)
bacteria8
next-generation-sequencing6
deep-learning3
complement3
deep-neural-networks1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MelaniaNowicka/RAccoon
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:144 commits, 4 PRs, 124 pushes in 3 years 9 months
MelaniaNowicka/CellClassifierTrainer
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:24 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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