Thomas Hitch
Assistant Professor, Department Of Anaesthesia And Intensive Care, CUHK at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolThomas Hitch is an Assistant Professor in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at CUHK and a bioinformatics researcher with 11 years’ experience in metagenomics, microbial ecology and genome assembly. He completed a PhD on rumen microbiology and spent nearly a decade as a postdoc at RWTH Aachen, combining wet-lab metatranscriptomics with development of bespoke assembly and analysis tools. His work spans practical microbiome applications—linking species, genes and SNPs to methane emissions—to underexplored viral components of microbial communities. Based in Hong Kong, he teaches and guest-lectures internationally and brings a rare blend of clinical departmental insight and hands-on computational genomics.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biomedical Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biomedical Sciences, General at University of the West of EnglandDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Rumen microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Rumen microbiology at Prifysgol Aberystwyth UniversityHigh School, GCSE, High School, GCSE at Kingsdown schoolA-levels, A-levels at Cirencester college
Github Skills (47)
genomes9
phylogenetic-trees9
phylogeny8
bacteria8
ncbi8
minhash8
bioinformatics8
microbiology7
genomics6
mikrotik6
modeling5
metagenomics5
rscript5
mantis5
python5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thh32/consortm
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
ConsortM: MALDI-based consortia monitoring
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 1 year 6 months
snmpmonitoringmikrotikmaldi
thh32/Assembly-stats
Jan 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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