Thomas Thurnherr
Senior Data Scientist
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolThomas Thurnherr is a Senior Data Scientist based in Basel with 12 years of experience translating complex biomedical and operational problems into production-ready digital solutions. At Roche Diagnostics Europe he leads data-science projects, drives digitization across operations, and manages the intersection of business stakeholders and development teams while coaching Agile practices as a PSM I. Trained as a computational biologist with a PhD from the National University of Singapore and prior research roles at ETH Zurich, he brings deep expertise in genomic data analysis alongside strong software skills in R, Shiny and SQL. He has a track record of implementing tool- and infrastructure-level improvements (including Git-driven processes and migrations) and mentoring junior colleagues and trainees. Notably, he blends domain-driven algorithm development from his early R&D software role with operational analytics to deliver measurable savings and actionable insights.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Matura, General, Matura, General at Kantonsschule, HeerbruggMaster of Science (MSc), Communication Systems - Bio-computing, Master of Science (MSc), Communication Systems - Bio-computing at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology at National University of Singapore
English, French, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
doi9
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plotly6
shiny6
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r-package6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cbg-ethz/pancancer-clustering
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes in 10 months
cbg-ethz/rDGIdb
Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:7 comments, 6 issues in 4 years 2 months
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