Algorithm Development Expert, SOPHiA GENETICS
Ambizione PI, University of Bern, Switzerland
Employment:
Mar. 2025 -
Algorithm Development Expert
SOPHiA GENETICS, Rolle, Switzerland
Focussed on algorithms to detect Copy Number Variation and Structural Variants in clinical settings (oncology, rare and hereditary disease)
Apr. 2021 -
Principal Investigator
Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland
SNSF Ambizione Grant - "Evolution of meiotic recombination and genomic divergence in percomorph fishes"
Salzburger Lab, Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
“Molecular basis of convergent evolution between cichlid fishes of lakes Malawi and Tanganyika”
Education:
Oct. 2011 - Sep. 2016
PhD student + a few months Postdoc
PhD in Mathematical Genomics, University of Cambridge, UK
Thesis: "Genomic diversity and speciation in East African cichlid fish"
Advisors: Prof. Richard Durbin and Prof. Eric Miska
Graduation: 14th May 2016 (defense 9th Nov. 2015)
Oct. 2010 - Sep. 2011
Masters in Computational Biology, University of Cambridge, UK
Oct. 2007- Jun. 2010
BSc in Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
Teaching:
May 2022 to 2025
Co-organiser
Evolutionary Genomics MSc course, University of Bern + Fribourg
Teaching topics at the intersection of phylogenomics and population genetics
Feb. 2016, 2018, 2020 +
Jun 2022, Jan 2025
Co-director + Instructor
Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics
Two-week specialist courses for ~70 scientists across all seniority levels (PhD, postdoc, faculty)
Nov. 2020
Instructor
Phylogenomics Workshop, Physalia Courses
One-week online course for ~25 scientist across all seniority levels (PhD, postdoc, faculty)
RESUME
Milan Malinsky, PhD (Full Academic CV)