Yannick Wurm
Programme Director at Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorYannick Wurm is a programme director and evolutionary genomics leader with two decades of experience turning high-throughput -omics data into actionable insight for academia, industry and policy. As Professor/Reader at Queen Mary University of London, founder of Pragmatic Genomics and Pollinatework, and a former Alan Turing Institute fellow, he combines hands‑on bioinformatics with strategic programme leadership. He runs a research lab focused on social evolution in ants, pollinator health, and robust genomic software, and has authored over 50 publications. Yannick is pragmatic about reproducibility and ethics in large-scale patient and environmental datasets, routinely advising on clinical-trial and environmental risk analyses. Equally comfortable at the bench, in code or shaping funding and research strategy, he excels at translating complex genomic methods into practical decisions. Based in London, he frequently bridges academic rigour with product-minded delivery through consultancy and cloud-enabled tools like SequenceServer.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
3,657reputation
343kreached
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Github Skills (126)
blast10
cancer-genomics10
ruby10
genome-assembly10
genomics10
genomics-visualization10
javascript10
bam10
ncbi10
genome10
sequence-alignment10
sequencing10
visualization10
genome-analysis10
bioinformatics10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
LK/sequenceserver
Oct 2010 - Apr 2014
Contributions:79 commits in 3 years 6 months
yannickwurm/bootstrapy
Aug 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:117 commits in 1 year 3 months
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