Tony Papenfuss
Deputy Director at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolTony Papenfuss is a computational biology leader and Deputy Director at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, where he heads a bioinformatics laboratory applying mathematics, statistics and machine learning to decode cancer multi-omics. With a PhD in Mathematics and over a decade of leadership roles spanning WEHI and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, he builds novel bioinformatics methods that bridge theory and translational cancer genomics. He helped found and led the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society, shaping national bioinformatics capacity and community practice. Known for integrating rigorous quantitative models with practical biomedical problems, he combines deep mathematical training with hands-on development of tools that drive discovery in complex disease.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Mathematics, PhD, Mathematics at Monash University
Github Skills (37)
complexheatmap10
tidyverse9
viridis9
tibble9
bioinformatics9
heatmap9
genomics9
graphviz8
dplyr8
tidy8
scale6
genome6
rstudio6
draw6
r6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PapenfussLab/MHC-clogs
Nov 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 9 months
papenfuss/BINF90004
Aug 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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