Summary
Pascal Pucholt is a Staff Data Scientist with 11 years of experience combining deep genetics training (PhD) and hands-on bioinformatics to solve complex sequencing and proteomics problems. He has broad expertise across sequencing platforms from Illumina to PacBio and 10X Chromium and a track record of moving methods from academic projects at Uppsala and Heidelberg into product-focused roles at Olink Proteomics and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Comfortable bridging wet-lab and computational teams, he creates reproducible pipelines, integrates heterogeneous data sources, and presents results to diverse stakeholders in three languages. Pascal has taught at bachelor and master levels, coordinated projects, and frequently presents at conferences, showing both technical depth and communication skill. Known for quickly adopting new techniques, he also brings system-level savvy from early roles as a server/analysis engineer and co-founder of a small software venture. Based in Uppsala, he excels in interdisciplinary teams where biological insight and scalable data science meet product development.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at University of Heidelberg
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Uppsala University
German, English, Swedish