Markus Bauer, PhD
Associate Scientific Director – Team Lead; Global Computational Biology and Digital Sciences
Markus Bauer studied computer science at the Technical University Vienna, graduating with an MSc in Technical Computer Science in 2004. Markus then joined the International Max Planck Research School for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing (IMPRS-CBSC, now IMPRS for Biology and Computation) as a PhD student where he was working on algorithms for performing sequence-structure alignments. In
2008, he started as a research scientist at Illumina Cambridge contributing to projects ranging from algorithms (sequencing mapping, BWT construction), whole-genome studies (sequencing of the Tasmanian devil) as well as assay development (TruSeq Amplicon Cancer Panel). He joined Boehringer Ingelheim in 2012 as a research scientist in the Therapeutic Area of Cancer Research working on various pre-clinical programs as well as different data assets. Since 2022 Markus is leading a team within the Global Computational Biology and Digital Sciences department (gCBDS) focusing on data engineering and advanced technology stacks..