Sebastian Schmeier
Group Leader at Evotec
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Schmeier is a bioinformatics and data science leader with over 15 years of experience applying reproducible, data-driven analyses to high-throughput biological data and currently leads a group at Evotec in Hamburg. He has navigated both academic and industry environments—tenured research group leader and senior lecturer roles in New Zealand and investigator positions at the Maurice Wilkins Centre—bridging fundamental genomics research with drug-development bioinformatics. Sebastian is skilled at building and managing teams, designing scalable analysis workflows, and translating complex genomic datasets into actionable insights for biotechnology programs. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics and a long record of international collaborations (RIKEN, KAUST, HKUST), reflecting a global perspective on computational genomics. Living in Hamburg with his family, he brings a pragmatic, reproducibility-first approach to delivering robust computational solutions in translational science.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MSc), Bioinformatics at Freie Universität BerlinDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at University of the Western Cape/Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland
English, German
Github Skills (81)
python10
seq10
loops10
genomics10
data-visualization10
fasta10
bioconda10
aggregate10
stable10
pypi10
fastq10
bioinformatics10
versioning9
rna-seq9
snakemake9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sschmeier/beanplot
Sep 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
sschmeier/metafunc
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:5 PRs, 172 pushes, 227 branches in 11 months
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