CV
Studies
2021 - 2025: PhD degree in holo-omics
The Microbial Ecology and Meta-Omics (MEMO) Group, led by Prof. Phillip B. Pope,
Faculty of Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
- Showcased multi-omic integration in defense: “Rumen-Centric Assembly of the Cattle Holobiont”.
- Demonstrated teaching skills in trial lecture: “The origin, evolution and physiological role of hydrogenosomes in their protist hosts”.
- Received the degree: philosophiae doctor (ph.d.).
2018 - 2020: Master’s degree in Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics Research Centre (BiRC),
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Aarhus University (AU), Denmark.
- Master’s thesis on GC-bias in gene conversion. “GC-biased Gene Conversion (gBGC) in Rhizobium leguminosarum”.
- Implementation of string algorithms for phylogenetic analysis, GWAS, genomics, molecular evolution.
- Application of statistical methods and clustering techniques on DNA and expression-data.
- Completion of various scientific projects, including sex-chromosome evolution as well as parallel optimization of linear time algorithms.
2015 - 2018: Bachelor’s degree in Biology
Department of Bioscience,
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Aarhus University (AU), Denmark.
- More than one year full time equivalents in bioinformatics courses (at BiRC).
- Tutor for new students, years 2016 and 2018.
- Exchange, 6 months at Manipal University (MAHE), Karnataka, India 2018.
- Bachelor project: “Copy Number Variation of Ampliconic Regions on Hominid X and Y chromosomes”
Employments
December 2025 - Present: Postdoctoral Researcher
Plant Molecular Biology,
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Aarhus University (AU), Denmark.
- Multi-omics integration.
- ENSA team member ensa.ac.uk/team/carl-m-kobel
June 2023 - July 2025: Bioinformatics Consultant (part time)
Kobelomics Enk., Ås, Norway &
Kobelomics PMV, Odder, Denmark.
- Consultation on bioinformatic genomic clinical analysis of multi-resistant microbial pathogens.
- Understanding client needs and translating intuitive ideas into concrete tasks.
- Development of bespoke bioinformatic pipelines.
- Teaching and scientific communication at Aarhus University Hospital.
August 2021 - January 2025: PhD fellow
The Microbial Ecology and Meta-Omics (MEMO) Group, led by Prof. Phillip B. Pope,
Faculty of Biosciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
- Researching fundamental questions in host-microbe interactions.
- Integration of multi-omic data using dimensionality reduction and correlation network analysis.
- Conference talks and outreach:
- Poster: International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2022.
- Pitched poster: Australian Microbial Ecology Conference (AusME), Melbourne, Australia, 2022.
- Presentation: Congress on Gastrointestinal Function (CGIF), Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2024.
- Presentation: Applied Hologenomics Conference (AHC), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2024.
- Visiting researcher with international collaborations: (Hosted by)
- Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, University of Queensland, Australia. (Prof. Phil Hugenholtz)
- Centre for Microbial Research, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. (Prof. Gene Tyson)
- Livestock, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia. (Prof. Stuart Denman)
- Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. (Morten T. Limborg)
- Software conceptualization, engineering, packaging, documentation, containerization and distribution.
- Interpersonal skills and collaboration.
July 2020 - July 2021: Lead Bioinformatician
Department of Clinical Microbiology,
Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Denmark.
- Complete design and development of pipeline for genome assembly and phylogenetic analysis for governmental large scale sequencing of SARS-CoV-2.
- Hiring and managing student employees.
- Configuration and integration of computational hardware.
- Consulting clinicians in interpreting molecular infection tracking of pathogens.
- Teaching and communicating across a diverse field of professionals.
Summary of skills
- A deep understanding of the technical challenges of researching molecular biology and the symbiotic relationships in a wide radiation of species.
- Applied statistics, dimensionality reduction, network analysis, modeling, visualization of large datasets: To obtain true multi-omic integration.
- Programming languages, sorted by descending fluency: Python, R, Bash, C, Java.
- Parallelization of big-data workflows using Snakemake.
- Cryptographic handling of sensitive data.
- Hardware/software/network/user integration and design of workstations for bioinformatic needs running GNU/Linux.
- Packaging and containerization using Conda, Docker, Apptainer.