Peter Schmidtke is a Scientific Project Manager with 17 years of experience bridging structural bioinformatics, structure-based drug design, and product leadership from Paris. As product owner of Discngine 3decision, he combines hands-on molecular modeling expertise (virtual screening, homology modeling, MD, free energy calculations) with R&D strategy and pre-competitive collaboration building. His background includes a PhD focused on binding-site prediction and pocket databases (fpocket) and a postdoc delivering computational support for drug discovery at Institut de Recherche Servier. Comfortable in HPC environments and with strong programming and project management skills, he routinely translates complex computational methods into usable product features. A shareholder in Discngine, he champions distributed management and long-term product vision alongside delivery. Colleagues benefit from his rare mix of deep academic rigor and pragmatic product execution.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Spec. Biology / German, Abitur, Spec. Biology / German at Johannes Kepler Gymnasium Leipzig
MSc, Bioinformatics, MSc, Bioinformatics at University Paris Diderot
fpocket is a very fast open source protein pocket detection algorithm based on Voronoi tessellation. The platform is suited for the scientific community willing to develop new scoring functions and extract pocket descriptors on a large scale level. fpocket is distributed as free open source software. If you are interested in integrating fpocket in an industrial setting and require official support, please contact Discngine (www.discngine.com).
Contributions:17 releases, 6 reviews, 156 commits in 5 years 8 months
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