Sebastian Duchene
Group Leader at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolSebastian Duchene is a computational biologist and group leader specializing in infectious disease genomics, with 11 years’ experience applying Bayesian inference and MCMC to virus and bacterial genome data. Based in Paris and formerly leading a high-impact team at the Doherty Institute, he has authored 85 peer-reviewed articles (H-index 35) and secured over $3.5M AUD in competitive funding to drive genomic surveillance and policy-relevant analyses of SARS-CoV-2. He codes primarily in R (with Python and Bash), develops scalable phylodynamic methods on HPC, and routinely translates technical results into reports and media-visible findings that have informed national responses. As an associate editor at Virus Evolution and a leader at Institut Pasteur, he blends hands-on computational method development with team leadership and science communication, and has a track record of early, influential estimates of viral evolutionary rates and variant emergence.
11 years of coding experience
The University of Sydney
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
ssa8
evolutionary8
simulator7
simulation7
bioconda6
bayesian6
evolution6
database5
beast4
computation4
mathematics4
statistics4
java4
sampling4
pure-python4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aporter704/HostJump_Sims
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:46 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
sebastianduchene/BETS_prior_sensitivity_ms
Feb 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 82 pushes, 90 branches in 7 months
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