Professional experience and positionsΒ
Professional experience and positionsΒ
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) β Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
π Hamburg, Germany | ποΈ May 2025 β Present
Project: EAC Regional One Health Genomic Surveillance
Provide technical strategic guidance on bioinformatics approaches for genomic surveillance across East African Community (EAC) Partner States, supporting regional harmonization, data analysis workflows, and capacity building initiatives.
Develop NGS workflows (Illumina, Nanopore) for field and mobile lab settings
Integrate One Health data (human, animal, environmental, vector)
Advise on bioinformatics infrastructure and decentralized analysis
Support outbreak responses and multi-country genomic preparedness
(Africa PGI Program) β Africa CDC
π Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia | ποΈ 03/2025 β Present
Co-developing and delivering Africa CDCβs regional training packages on bioinformatics and pathogen genomics.Β
Designed and analyzed pre/post-training evaluations and participant feedbacksurveys to inform training outcomes and refinement.Β
Provided ongoing mentorship, technical expertise, and strategic input to NPHLs across Member States on the implementation of pathogen genomic tools in public health systems.Β
BNITM β Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
π Hamburg, Germany | ποΈ Jul 2022 β Apr 2025
Supported deployment of NGS platforms in mobile and reference labs
Designed AMR and zoonotic disease workflows for Mpox, Ebola, V. cholerae
Field-based missions supporting genomic surveillance in East Africa
Drafted SOPs, training documents, and regional surveillance reports
Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
π Dummerstorf, Germany | ποΈ Jan 2022 β Jun 2022
Developed genome assembly and annotation pipelines for aquaculture
Investigated genetic traits for SMART farming and fish health management
FBN β Fish Genetic Unit
π Dummerstorf, Germany | ποΈ Oct 2017 β Dec 2021
Genotyped SNPs, SVs, STRs; conducted GWAS in fish species
Developed pipelines for biomarker discovery in aquaculture
Supported microbiome analysis and computational resource management
Leibniz-HKI β Systems Biology and Bioinformatics Department
π Jena, Germany | ποΈ Apr 2016 β Sep 2017
Built RNA-Seq ML pipelines for Candida biomarker prediction
Administered HPC systems and supported team analysis workflows
Boehringer Ingelheim
π Biberach, Germany | ποΈ Jan 2014 β Aug 2014
Implemented RNA-Seq pipeline for CHO cell gene expression
Built NGS database with advanced data visualization in Spotfire and R