Volker Bäcker
Bioimage Analyst at INSERM
Sommières, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolVolker Bäcker is a seasoned bioimage analyst and software engineer with 19 years of experience blending computational rigor and imaging expertise at INSERM and the Montpellier imaging facility (MRI). Based in Sommières, Occitania, he translates complex microscopy datasets into actionable results, supporting researchers with both analysis pipelines and bespoke software tools. His background in computer science (Dipl. Inform.) and long tenure in academic and industry roles reflect deep skills in scientific software development and data-driven problem solving. Comfortable at the intersection of biology and engineering, he brings practical production experience from early software development roles through two decades at INSERM. A detail that sets him apart is his sustained dual role as analyst and engineer, enabling end-to-end solutions from instrument data to reproducible analysis.
19 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Inform., Computer Science, Dipl. Inform., Computer Science at University of DortmundAbitur, Mathematics, Physics, Abitur, Mathematics, Physics at Anne Frank Gymnasium Halver
French, German, English
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Github Skills (25)
jython10
macros10
imagej10
fiji10
imaging10
inverse-problems10
laplacian10
imagej-macro10
mri10
image-processing9
watershed7
segment7
image-analysis7
batch6
transform6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Neubias-WG5/W_NucleiSegmentation-Cellpose
Nov 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 6 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 10 months
MontpellierRessourcesImagerie/ij-macro-programming-workshop
Oct 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:1 release, 176 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
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