Philipp Rescheneder
Snr. Director, Applications Bioinformatics At Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolPhilipp Rescheneder is a senior bioinformatics leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling genome analysis applications at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, now serving as Senior Director of Applications Bioinformatics. He progressed through technical and managerial roles—from application developer to director—helping translate long-read sequencing innovations into production-ready genomic apps and workflows. Trained in bioinformatics with MSc and BSc degrees from Vienna and Upper Austria, he also spent formative research time at Cold Spring Harbor and Max F. Perutz Laboratories focusing on accurate mapping and structural variation analysis. Based in Vienna, Philipp blends deep domain expertise in third-generation sequencing with product-minded leadership, driving cross-functional teams that bridge research, engineering, and customer-facing solutions. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs rigorous scientific insight with pragmatic delivery, often surfacing niche algorithmic improvements that materially boost downstream analyses.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Bioinformatics at Hagenberg Campus - FH Upper AustriaMaster of Science - MS Bioinformatics, Master of Science - MS Bioinformatics at Medical University of Vienna
Github Skills (68)
package-management10
structural-variation10
genomes10
genome-assembly10
genomics10
next-generation-sequencing10
fastq-files10
transcription10
rna-seq10
bioconda10
genome10
conda10
sequence-alignment10
pairwise10
bioinformatics10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
philres/catfishq
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Cat FASTQ files
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 22 commits in 2 years
fastq-filesfastq
nanoporetech/pipeline-structural-variation
Mar 2019 - May 2020
Pipeline for calling structural variations in whole genomes sequencing Oxford Nanopore data
Contributions:2 releases, 38 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 1 month
callinggenomesnanoporebioinformaticspipeline
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