Nikolaos Lykoskoufis
Senior Bioinformatics Research Engineer
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolaos Lykoskoufis is a Senior Bioinformatics Research Engineer based in Geneva with eight years’ experience translating human genomics and transcriptomics into actionable biological insights. He has deep hands-on expertise with NGS workflows, multi-omics integration, Nextflow pipeline engineering and production-grade tooling written in Python, Rust and C++, with a track record of discovering novel isoforms, mutated peptides and active retroviruses in cell lines. His PhD work contributed to high-impact publications on transposable elements and psychiatric genomics, and he has bridged academia and industry by building reproducible pipelines and Nextflow plugins for on-premise automation. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who enjoys mining complex datasets and turning multidisciplinary problems into deployable bioinformatics solutions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology at University of Geneva
Greek, French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
javascript9
open-source9
sequencing2
bioinformatics2
genomics2
rna-seq2
modular1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NLykoskoufis/BraunLabPipeline
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Pipeline for ATAC-seq
Contributions:4 PRs, 120 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
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NLykoskoufis/NLykoskoufis
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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