Christian Zmasek
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Zmasek is a Senior Bioinformatics Engineer in San Diego with 11 years of focused experience applying computational methods to molecular and comparative biology problems. He combines a PhD in Molecular Genetics and a diploma from ETH Zürich to bridge experimental insight with robust bioinformatics software development. Since 2016 he has driven bioinformatics engineering at the J. Craig Venter Institute after roles at UC San Diego and a long postdoctoral tenure, consistently turning complex genomics data into usable tools and analyses. His background as a principal investigator and bench scientist gives him uncommon fluency in both algorithmic design and practical lab constraints. Known for long-term commitments to research organizations, he brings steady leadership in building reproducible pipelines and integrating evolutionary perspectives into software solutions. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful, biology-first engineering that anticipates downstream experimental needs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Chemistry/Biology with emphasis on Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biophysics, Cell Biology, Diploma, Chemistry/Biology with emphasis on Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biophysics, Cell Biology at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis
German, English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (29)
tree-viewer10
javascript10
visualization10
taxonomy10
beast10
evolution10
phylogenetics10
phylogenetic-trees10
genomics10
computational-biology10
web-application9
bioinformatics9
nodejs9
cytoscape7
parser7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cmzmasek/msa
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
Modified Version of MSAViewer
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 5 months
windowsmodified
cmzmasek/forester
May 2015 - Dec 2022
forester is a collection of open-source libraries and tools for genomics and evolutionary biology research. It includes the tree viewer Archaeopteryx.
Contributions:227 commits, 477 pushes, 12 comments in 7 years 8 months
tree-viewerevolutiongenomicscomputational-biologyphylogenetics
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