Simon Steiger
PhD Student at DKFZ German Cancer Research Center
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Steiger is a computational scientist and PhD student at DKFZ with a decade of experience applying single-cell multi-omic analysis to chromatin biology and randomized clinical trial interfaces. Trained in molecular biotechnology at Heidelberg and with research stints at EMBL, Harvard Med, and the Max Planck Institute, he combines deep wet‑lab domain knowledge with strong bioinformatics and tool‑building skills. As a member of RippeLab he maintains the Curry-cluster and develops scalable pipelines for single‑cell multi‑omic datasets, enabling reproducible analyses across large cohorts. His background in IT project management and ERP transitions gives him uncommon strengths in data infrastructure, process optimization, and cross‑disciplinary collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Molekulare Biotechnologie, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Molekulare Biotechnologie at Heidelberg UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Molekulare Biotechnologie, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Molekulare Biotechnologie at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
German, English
Github Skills (21)
r-package10
seq10
transcriptomics10
rna-seq10
describe9
linux9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
cpp8
python8
droplet8
hpc8
datasets8
modular8
large-scale7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Simontuk/dotpandoc
Oct 2019 - Jan 2025
Pandoc Data directory, including filters and templates for producing multiple outputs for academic content.
Contributions:9 pushes in 5 years 4 months
pandocfiltersoutputslatexdirectory
Simontuk/prezto
Aug 2018 - Sep 2023
The configuration framework for Zsh
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
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