Dr. Simon Tausch Robert Koch Institute, Germany

Dr. Simon Tausch is bioinformatician and senior scientific officer at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment. He obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in bioinformatics at FU Berlin. In his PhD Thesis, he developed several bioinformatic tools related to metagenomics and NGS based pathogen diagnostics. In his current... read moreposition, he develops data-management solutions and efficient pipelines for real-time analyses of food-related bacteria and conducts research on metagenomics. Besides gaining broad experience in bioinformatic algorithmics, he worked in many application-oriented projects in a variety of fields, which makes him a vital link between wet-lab, dry-lab and scientists from different research areas.