Tobias Jakobi is an Associate Professor and bioinformatician with 12 years of experience bridging wet lab research and computational biology, currently leading a lab at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix focused on RNA species interplay and cardiac functional networks. Trained from BS to PhD in bioinformatics and genome research at Bielefeld University, he pairs deep eukaryotic and genome biology knowledge with hands-on wet lab experience to enable fluent collaboration between experimentalists and computational teams. His work spans translational cardiovascular research and development of open-source computational tools intended to be broadly reusable by the research community. Having held postdoctoral roles at the Max Planck Institute and University Hospital Heidelberg and an early internship at Illumina, he combines academic rigor with practical industry exposure. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic tool-builder who prioritizes reproducible analyses and interpretable models that directly inform bench experiments.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Bielefeld University
Contributions:8 commits, 19 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 4 months
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