Christoph Hafemeister

Christoph Hafemeister is a skilled researcher and consultant in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics, currently serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute since June 2021. With extensive experience in data analysis and technology strategy across the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, Christoph has contributed significantly to single-cell data analysis, including the development of the Seurat and sctransform R packages. Previous roles include a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the New York Genome Center, where pivotal methods for analyzing single-cell RNA-seq data were devised, and a Research Assistant at prestigious institutions like New York University and the Max Planck Institute, where expertise in gene regulatory networks and high-throughput data analysis was developed. Christoph holds a PhD in Computational Biology from New York University and a Master's in Bioinformatics from Freie Universität Berlin.