Robert Murdoch
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Murdoch is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with eight years of focused experience applying computational biology to biosurveillance, environmental remediation, pathogen studies, agricultural biosecurity, and algal community biology. Trained with a Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology and Microbiology from Cornell and a zoology B.S. from UT Austin, he blends deep biological insight with practical bioinformatics to support multidisciplinary research at Battelle. His career spans academia and government labs—teaching environmental toxicology and leading biodegradation projects in Turkey, coordinating bioinformatics at the University of Tennessee, and conducting environmental microbiology and fisheries work earlier in his career. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex environmental and public-health questions into actionable sequencing and analysis pipelines. He is notable for pairing field-relevant ecological perspective with rigorous computational methods, making him effective at bridging lab, field, and data-driven program needs. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he brings a track record of turning environmental bioscience challenges into deployable, policy-relevant solutions.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Zoology, Bachelor’s Degree, Zoology at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Toxicology, Microbiology and Risk Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Toxicology, Microbiology and Risk Studies at Cornell University
Github Skills (6)
knitr8
data-wrangling8
r8
stable8
data-visualisation7
data-visualization6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rwmurdoch/ETE3_CodeML_testing
May 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
rwmurdoch/project.scripts
Sep 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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