Experience

  1. Senior Digital Consultant

    Independent Contractor

    Building advanced digital products and AI-assisted solutions for private clients.

    • Project management for custom digital delivery
    • Agentic LLM workflows and product strategy
  2. Senior Data Scientist

    GSK (formerly GlaxoSmithKline)

    Led bioinformatics and data analytics work for Vaccines R&D, spanning pipeline development, database design, microbial genomics, and cross-study evidence generation.

    • Data and knowledge integration for hypothesis generation
    • Exploratory models for pre-clinical, clinical, and epidemiological datasets
    • Study design, readout selection, analysis strategy, and publication support
  3. Consultant in Data Science, Biology, Education and IT

    Sinclair.Bio

    Delivered consulting work across Europe for research, education, and innovation teams, combining programming, design, and scientific leadership.

    • Clients included EPFL, University of Warwick, Biomillenia, Arcadia, HUG, BRTA, University of Bergen, Insight Technology Solutions, and Oxford IR, among others
    • Work ranged from data science and software delivery to UX/UI design and technical education
  4. Application Architect

    European Commission

    Simulated models of forest biomass dynamics across 26 member countries to predict EU policy impact on carbon sequestration.

    • Built Python packages to automatically harvest, harmonize, and compare international forest datasets
    • Delivered scenario-based wood product supply and demand projections through 2050 for policy support
    • Published open-source packages and peer-reviewed publications
  5. Post-Doctoral Fellow

    University of Geneva

    Studied microbial communities with DNA sequencing data in the Molecular Systematics and Environmental Genomics laboratory.

    • Built infrastructure for repeatable analyses
    • Automated statistical workflows and visualization generation
  6. Founder and CTO

    Envonautics AB

    CRO providing comprehensive eDNA-based solutions for environmental monitoring with full chain project management: from sampling, sequencing, analysis all the way to insight communication and scientific writing.

    • Environmental impact assessment and mitigation
    • Custom software and pipeline creation.
  7. Lead Teacher for Python Course

    Uppsala University

    Designed and delivered a Python course titled “Practical Python Programming for Big Data and the Scientist” for 20 PhD students within the graduate education program.

    • Secured stakeholder support and funding
    • Hired and coordinated two teaching assistants
  8. Scientific Assistant

    Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core Facility at EPFL

    Supported research projects and developed tools for processing and analyzing high-throughput genomic sequencing data.

    • Bioinformatics support across multiple collaborations
    • Python tooling for sequencing analysis
    • Collaborated on the development of an online interactive genome browser

Education

  1. Uppsala University

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

    Bioinformatics

    Built bioinformatics pipelines that processed over a billion DNA sequencing reads to characterize microbial communities in aquatic ecosystems (boreal lakes, the Danube river, and soda lakes).

    • Authored 5 publications and released seqenv, an open-source tool linking sequences to environments via NCBI homology search and ontology-based text mining
    • Reconstructed genomes from metagenomic datasets revealing previously undetected pathways (photoferrotrophy, anaerobic methane oxidation) in freshwater systems
  2. EPFL

    Master of Science (MSc)

    School of Life Sciences

    Dual specialization in Bioinformatics and Computational Neuroscience, with a strong focus on systems biology and quantitative modeling.

    • Coursework included computational molecular biology, machine learning, dynamical systems theory for engineers, graphs & networks, etc.
    • Built and ran a large student-operated online wiki for teaching resource exchange
  3. EPFL

    Bachelor of Science (BSc)

    School of Life Sciences

    STEM track with a broad analytical foundation and a specialization in Biotechnology and Bioengineering.

    • Coursework included mathematical analysis, physics, chemistry, linear algebra, and computer science, etc.
    • Class delegate, member of the faculty student association and the campus coaching program

Certifications

  1. Academic Teacher Training

    Uppsala University

    Formal training in higher education pedagogy, course design, and learning assessment, qualifying for graduate-level instruction.

    • 25 full days covering syllabus planning, classroom feedback, presentation skills, and reflective teaching practice, etc.