Tobias Wenzel
Assistant Professor at Journal of Open Hardware
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
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Top SchoolTobias Wenzel is an Assistant Professor and bioengineer with over a decade of experience developing ultra-high-throughput droplet microfluidic and bioimaging methods to probe human cell–microbiome interactions. He combines hands-on expertise in microfabrication, optics, modelling and microbiome analysis with a PhD from Cambridge to deliver low-cost, high-performance open-source hardware for global impact. As a leader in the Open Science Hardware movement, he founded and edited the Journal of Open Hardware and builds accessible automation tools that accelerate cultivation, genetic and metabolic screens. His work blends quantitative biophysics and practical engineering, translating complex lab techniques into reproducible, widely adoptable platforms. Based in Santiago, Chile, he bridges academic research and community-driven toolmaking to unlock scalable discoveries in quantitative biology.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Certificate at Live Sciences Kollege of the German National Academic FoundationPhD, PhD at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Technische Universität Berlin / TU Berlin
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
in-progress10
printable9
microscopy8
raycasting8
javascript7
licensing7
reusability7
creative-commons6
jekyll6
mri6
open-hardware6
meta6
journal6
translation5
editors4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Biomaker/25_Optical-flow-rate-measurement-for-microfluidics
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 5 months
wenzel-lab/droplet-sorter-optomechanics
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:70 commits, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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