Michaela Spitzer is a data analytics consultant and bioinformatician with 12 years of experience bridging wet-lab discovery and computational analysis, focused on antimicrobial discovery, yeast functional genomics, and small-molecule screening. She holds a PhD in Chemical Biology and has driven product development and scientific validation at Singer Instruments while building analysis tools and pipelines in academic and industry roles at EMBL-EBI, Genomics plc and Exscientia. Michaela excels at translating complex experimental workflows into reproducible data pipelines and visualization tools, having published a widely used statistical web app (BoxPlotR) and implemented NextGen sequencing analysis platforms. Now based in Oxford, she brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on experimental expertise and data engineering to product and research teams, and thrives on intellectually challenging projects that pair biology with scalable analytics.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bioinformatics at Freie Universität Berlin
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Biology at The University of Edinburgh
Otto-Nagel Oberschule
Postgraduate studies, Medical Genetics, Postgraduate studies, Medical Genetics at University of Toronto
BSc (hons), Bioinformatics, BSc (hons), Bioinformatics at University of Auckland
Contributions:28 commits, 11 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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