Silvio Waschina
Assistant Professor at The University of Kiel
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Top SchoolSilvio Waschina is an Assistant Professor and bioinformatic scientist with eight years of experience at the intersection of microbial ecology, nutrition, and medicine, leading the Nutriinormatics research group at the University of Kiel. He develops and applies computational biology tools and predictive models to dissect molecular processes along the nutrition–gut microbiome–health axis, translating clinical study data into intervention strategies. His background spans evolutionary systems biology and hands-on experimental work—from long-term bacterial evolution experiments and metabolite characterization to transcriptomics and comparative genomics—giving him rare fluency across wet-lab and computational domains. Trained summa cum laude in biomathematics and bioinformatics, he has a track record of rigorous data mining, simulation, and statistical study design from roles at the Max Planck Institute and University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein. Based in Kiel, Germany, Silvio combines academic leadership with practical systems-biology approaches to make microbiome research more predictive and actionable.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, summa cum laude at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
German, English
Github Skills (59)
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bioinformatics10
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cobra10
package-management9
assembly9
graph-layout9
ruby9
linux9
conda9
linuxbrew9
metagenomics9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Waschina/MicrobiomeGS2
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Waschina/gapseq.tutorial.data
Jun 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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