Wolfgang Huber
Group Leader Principal Investigator And Senior Scientist
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolWolfgang Huber is a senior computational biologist and group leader with over 20 years of experience translating statistical and computational methods into novel experimental designs in genetics and cell biology. As Principal Investigator at EMBL he leads research at the intersection of genomics and translational statistics, previously heading a research group at EMBL-EBI and bringing deep expertise from postdoctoral work in high-throughput screening and cheminformatics. Trained as a theoretical physicist (PhD) with a top-grade Diplom, he combines rigorous quantitative thinking with practical bioinformatics to develop methods that inform experimental practice. Based in Heidelberg, he is known for bridging theory and application—designing analyses that shape how genomic experiments are performed and interpreted.
11 years of coding experience
Physics, Meteorology, Physics, Meteorology at The University of EdinburghPhD, Theoretical Physics, PhD, Theoretical Physics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im BreisgauScheffel-Gymnasium Bad Säckingen
German, French
Github Skills (28)
bioconductor10
weighting9
microbiome9
cran9
metagenomics8
bookdown8
single-cell-genomics8
bioinformatics8
r8
taxonomy8
data-analysis7
xaringan5
statistics4
core-package4
out-of-memory4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Huber-group-EMBL/Huber-group-EMBL.github.io
Aug 2023 - Nov 2025
Huber group public webpage
Contributions:19 PRs, 291 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
wolfganghuber/demos
Jul 2020 - Feb 2026
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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