Pierre Morisse
Staff Bioinformatics Scientist
Rouen, Normandy, France
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Top SchoolPierre Morisse is a Staff Bioinformatics Scientist with nine years of experience specializing in high-throughput sequencing analysis, long-read error correction, and structural variant calling. With a PhD in Computer Science (bioinformatics) and a progression from postdoc research at Inria to senior roles and now staff scientist at Illumina, he bridges deep algorithmic expertise and product-driven genomics engineering. His work has focused on noisy third-generation long reads and Linked-Reads that combine high accuracy with long-range information, tackling practical challenges from error correction to SV discovery. Based in Rouen, Normandy, he pairs rigorous theoretical training in computer science with hands-on implementation in production genomics, making him effective at turning complex sequencing problems into scalable solutions. An understated strength is his consistent movement between academia and industry, giving him a rare fluency in both cutting-edge methods and their real-world deployment.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics Specialization, PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics Specialization at Université de Rouen
French, English
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Github Skills (51)
package-management10
barcodes10
conda10
structural-variation10
bioinformatics10
pairwise9
sequence-alignment9
evaluator9
bioconda9
sequence9
error-correction9
genomics9
refactoring8
hash8
bam7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
morispi/LEVIATHAN
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 82 commits, 55 pushes in 11 months
kamimrcht/ELECTOR
Dec 2017 - May 2021
ELECTOR: EvaLuator of Error Correction Tools for lOng Reads
Contributions:1 release, 207 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 6 months
long-readslongcorrectionerrorerror-correction
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