Fernando Meyer
Postdoctoral Researcher In Metagenomics at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolFernando Meyer is a postdoctoral researcher in metagenomics with 9 years of experience building high-performance bioinformatics software and benchmarking frameworks. Based at Hamburg's Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, he specializes in metagenomic assembly, binning, and taxonomic profiling, co-organizing the CAMI community challenge and helping define standards, metrics, and containerized workflows. His background blends a PhD in Bioinformatics and strong computer science training with hands-on implementation of ultra-fast sequence algorithms in C and production Java web development from earlier industry roles. Fernando is comfortable moving between research, community-driven standards, and reproducible tool deployment (Docker/Singularity), making him effective at translating method development into widely usable software. A less obvious strength is his long arc from enterprise ERP and web systems to cutting-edge RNA and metagenomics methods, which gives him both systems-thinking and practical engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at The University of FreiburgDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, magna cum laude at University of HamburgBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
English, Portuguese, German
Github Skills (11)
bioinformatics10
conda10
benchmarking10
binning10
package-management10
bioconda10
metagenomics10
profiling10
simulation9
visualizations8
file-format1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fernandomeyer/GUI-Ant-Miner
Sep 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
CAMI-challenge/AMBER
Jun 2017 - Jun 2021
AMBER: Assessment of Metagenome BinnERs
Contributions:21 releases, 246 commits, 23 PRs in 4 years
bioinformaticsassessmentambermetagenomebinning
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