Nikos Karaiskos
Senior Staff Scientist at Max Delbrück Center
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNikos Karaiskos is a Senior Staff Scientist in Berlin with 11 years of experience at the intersection of computational biology and theoretical physics, leading computational single-cell and spatial transcriptomics teams at the Max Delbrück Center. He combines deep expertise in high-throughput sequencing analysis, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and mathematical modeling with practical skills in R, Python, bash, machine learning and statistics. His background—PhD in theoretical physics summa cum laude—gives him a distinctive quantitative edge for developing robust bioinformatics methods and statistical models. As a project lead on DFG-funded work, he shepherds methods development, large-scale analyses, and mentors junior scientists, translating complex data into reproducible insights. Colleagues rely on him for bridging rigorous theory-driven approaches with hands-on computational pipelines that scale to real experimental data.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Theoretical Physics, Honours degree (summa cum laude), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Theoretical Physics, Honours degree (summa cum laude) at University of Patras
Greek, English, German, French
Github Skills (35)
dimensionality-reduction10
seq10
tsne10
gene-expression10
single-cell-analysis10
rna-seq10
clustering10
bioinformatics9
transcriptomics9
genomics9
sphinx8
python8
science8
pure-python8
mkdocs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nukappa/spacemake
Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 5 months
rajewsky-lab/stimwrap
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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