Steven Verbruggen
Head Of Bioinformatics
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Verbruggen is Head of Bioinformatics with a decade of experience translating complex proteogenomic and multi-omics data into actionable insights for research and industry. Trained as a bioscience engineer (MSc) and PhD in bioinformatics from Ghent University, he built and open-source–released pipelines such as mQC and PROTEOFORMER that integrate ribosome profiling and mass spectrometry at scale. His work bridged experimental and computational proteomics, including a pioneering collaboration at TUM applying ML-based spectrum predictors (Prosit) in a proteogenomic context. At OHMX.bio he now leads custom bioinformatics solutions for cutting-edge omics platforms including Oxford Nanopore and ribosome profiling, while continuing academic postdoctoral research in proteogenomics. Outside the lab he’s a jazz pianist and avid hiker, reflecting a creative, disciplined approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioengineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology (Bioinformatics), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioengineering: Cell and Gene Biotechnology (Bioinformatics) at Ghent University
Dutch, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
package-management10
conda10
bioinformatics10
galaxy10
wrapper10
bioconda10
sequencing8
cheminformatics8
shotgun7
genomics7
genome-assembly6
science5
profiling5
cycle5
identifier5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Biobix/mQC
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
Ribosome profiling mapping quality control tool
Contributions:16 releases, 9 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 10 months
quality-controlprofilingmappingribosome-profilingquality
StevenVerbruggen/galaxytools
Aug 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
microscopegalaxygalaxy-toolwrapperswrapper
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