TDCC-LSH FAIR Fellowship
2025-2026Selected as FAIR Fellow | Building expertise in FAIR data management and AI-ready research data | Dutch national fellowship programme
Sören Wacker
Research HPC/AI/Software Engineer
With a background spanning physics, biology, and chemistry, I build tools that make complex scientific workflows reproducible, scalable, and maintainable. My work connects life science research with HPC infrastructure and ML pipelines - rapidly prototyping solutions and turning ad-hoc analysis into automated, well-documented systems.
Selected Projects
Plotly dashboard for HPC cluster usage visualization | Exports and analyzes SLURM database | Usage pattern insights
CropXR: Climate-Adaptive Agriculture Platform
2023-PresentBuilding ResilienceHub data platform for crop resilience | NGF CropXR (~43M) + NWO PlantXR (~15M) | Keycloak, FastAPI, Docker, S3
SCENNIA: Microbial Cell Image Segmentation & Classification Demo
20256-week POC for AI-powered microbial image analysis | Supported $2M Bezos Earth Fund grant | Deep learning for single-cell segmentation and classification
Calgary Bloodstream Infection Cohort
2019-2023World's largest microbial dataset: 35K+ samples, 100TB+ data | Metabolomics, proteomics, genomics, health data | $420K in grants
Full-stack web service for proteomics quality control | User auth, multi-project management, configurable pipelines | Python, Django, PostgreSQL
Open-source Python API for large-scale metabolomics | Interactive web GUI in Plotly Dash
Machine Learning for Drug Discovery (Achlys-Inc)
2014-2016Co-founded ML startup with Li Ka Shing Institute | Cardiac toxicity prediction models | XGBoost
PhD in Computational Drug Design & Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Georg-August University & Max Planck Institute, Göttingen · 2012
Physics Studies (Diplom)
Leibniz University Hannover & University of Göttingen · 2002-2009