Nancy Hansen
Staff Scientist at NIH/NHGRI
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNancy Hansen is a Staff Scientist and bioinformatics expert with over a decade of experience designing algorithms and production pipelines for genomics and next-generation sequencing analysis. Based at NIH/NHGRI since 2002 after an applications role at the Stanford Genome Technology Center, she blends deep domain knowledge from a PhD in physical chemistry with practical software development skills. Her work focuses on turning complex sequencing data into reproducible, scalable workflows that support large-scale genomics research. Known for bridging computational rigor and experimental needs, she frequently collaborates across interdisciplinary teams to operationalize cutting-edge methods. Based in Rockville, Maryland, she brings a research-first perspective to software engineering, optimizing tools for both high-throughput labs and downstream analysis.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physical Chemistry, PhD, Physical Chemistry at Stanford UniversityAB, Chemistry, AB, Chemistry at Princeton University
Github Skills (40)
genetic10
structural-variation10
normal10
bioinformatics10
package-management9
conda9
genome9
genomics9
shimmer9
bioconda8
blast8
sequence-alignment7
pairwise7
rna-seq7
sequence-analysis4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
marbl/HG002
Oct 2023 - Mar 2026
A complete diploid human genome
Contributions:8 PRs, 35 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
marbl/HG002-issues
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
HG002 human reference genome issue tracking and polishing
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 105 pushes in 19 days
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