Michael Vacha
Doctoral Researcher at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Vacha is a medical data scientist and doctoral researcher at HZDR/OncoRay with 11 years of experience bridging clinical practice and translational research. Trained as an MD and holding an MSc in Translational Medical Research, he worked as a gastroenterology resident and has hands-on experience identifying unmet clinical needs that now inform his research. His PhD focuses on PET image harmonization to improve clinical outcome prediction, building on prior work analyzing MRI and biomarker-driven treatment outcomes in cholangiocarcinoma. Proficient in medical data curation and reproducible analysis with Python, R, Git, Markdown, and Bash, he emphasizes clinically applicable, transparent methods. Based in Dresden, he blends bedside perspective with computational rigor to accelerate imaging biomarkers from data to decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Technische Universität DresdenMaster of Science - MSc, Translational Medical Research, Master of Science - MSc, Translational Medical Research at Universität HeidelbergDoctor of Medicine - MUDr (MD, Master's level), General Medicine, 1.2, Doctor of Medicine - MUDr (MD, Master's level), General Medicine, 1.2 at Univerzita Karlova
English, Czech, German, Spanish, French
Github Skills (46)
parallelization9
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tasks8
computational-science8
parallel7
formatting7
event-driven7
multiphysics7
task-scheduler6
cli6
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rust5
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ComputationalRadiationPhysics/redGrapes
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:16 reviews, 454 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years 9 months
schedulingtasksparallelmultiphysicstask-graph
infinitycoding/mercury
Oct 2014 - Feb 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 14 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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