Shintaro Katayama
Senior Researcher at Folkhälsan
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolShintaro Katayama is a senior researcher and bioinformatics specialist with 13 years of experience combining data science and molecular medicine, currently based in the Greater Stockholm area. He holds a PhD in Life Science from The University of Tokyo and brings deep computational expertise from earlier computer science studies at the University of Tsukuba. He splits his time between academic roles—Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki and visiting researcher at Karolinska Institutet—and applied research supported by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation at Folkhälsan. His work focuses on high-throughput sequencing and single-cell transcriptomics, delivering both collaborative analyses for biologists and novel software tools to improve interpretation of complex genomic data. Notably, he has a long track record at leading institutions (RIKEN, SciLifeLab, Karolinska) bridging wet-lab biology and computational method development, often operating at the intersection of multidisciplinary teams.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoPh.D. course (retired), Computer Science, Ph.D. course (retired), Computer Science at University of Tsukuba
Github Skills (27)
seq10
rna-seq9
genomics8
journaling8
bioinformatics8
r-package7
traits7
forge7
biodiversity6
preprocessing6
clipboard5
emacs5
taxonomy5
org-mode4
typescript4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shka/STRTprep
Feb 2014 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 245 commits, 42 PRs in 8 years
genomicsbioinformaticsrna-seqrna-seq-dataseq
shka/ruby-bio-gadget
Aug 2012 - Feb 2017
Contributions:129 commits, 2 PRs, 74 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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