Oliver Schwengers
Postdoctoral Researcher at Justus Liebig University Giessen
Gießen, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolOliver Schwengers is a microbial bioinformatics postdoctoral researcher with 11 years of experience building scalable, fully automated "reads-to-reports" pipelines for bacterial whole-genome and plasmid analyses. At Justus Liebig University Giessen he develops and maintains open-source tools and methodologies for large-cohort comparative genomics, outbreak detection, and tracing AMR gene and plasmid transmission across medical, environmental and even space microbiology projects. His work spans hands-on assembly, annotation, SNP calling and subtyping to phylogenomics and integrated reporting, enabling reproducible, production-ready analyses for diverse collaborators. He earned a summa cum laude PhD in bioinformatics and combines deep method development with routine collaborative data analysis. Outside the lab he brings an uncommon blend of technical rigor and creative perspective — he’s a practicing astrophotographer and a father of two, hinting at a knack for both precision and long-focus patience.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Summa cum laude at Justus Liebig University GiessenMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Genome Based Systems Biology, 1.2, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Genome Based Systems Biology, 1.2 at Universität Bielefeld / University of Bielefeld
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (174)
blast10
taxonomy10
package-management10
python10
duplication10
standardized10
forge10
genomes10
microbiome10
microbial-genomics10
overlap10
genome-assembly10
genomics10
bacteria10
next-generation-sequencing10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
oschwengers/tadrep
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Targeted Detection and Reconstruction of Plasmids
Contributions:3 releases, 8 reviews, 59 commits in 1 year 8 months
reconstructionwgsbacteriaplasmids
ag-computational-bio/ReadXplorer
Dec 2014 - Mar 2022
ReadXplorer - Visualization and Analysis of Mapped Sequences
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 issue in 7 years 4 months
transcriptomicsvisualizationgenome-alignmentrna-seq
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