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.
10 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 (52)
phylogeny8
phylogenetic-trees8
ncbi8
genomes8
bioinformatics8
minhash7
bacteria7
genomics6
meta-analysis6
genome6
mikrotik6
microbiology6
genome-annotation5
python5
r-package5
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/Protologger
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Protologgger is a tool for the description of novel taxa by providing taxonomic, functional and ecological insights
Contributions:2 releases, 79 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 7 months
bioinformaticsecologicaltaxainsights
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