User:Oliver Hofmann

Oliver Hofmann is a Research Scientist in the Department of Biostatistics at HSPH, an affiliated member of the HSCI and the Associate Director of the Center. He has worked in a molecular biology wetlab environment before switching to natural language processing, database development and curation as part of his PhD thesis before branching out to sequence clustering and pattern recognition as a visiting researcher at deCODE Genetics. His work as a postdoctoral fellow at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute focused on data integration (eVOC ontology), second-generation sequencing analysis and network analysis. His current research focuses on stem cell biology and integrating heterogeneous data sources to provide biological context to results obtained from high throughput experiments. He can be found on Twitter and blogs about workshops and conferences. Oliver has a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Cologne, Germany.