John Wiedenhoeft

Since 2019: Research Associate, Core Facility, Medical Biometry and Statistical Bioinformatics, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen

2017-pres: Postdoctoral Fellow, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

2011-pres: Ph.D. student of Computer Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Teaching Assistant for CS

2010-2011: Research assistant at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Berlin, Department of Computational Molecular Biology (Martin Vingron): phylogeny of multidomain proteins, biclustering of gene expression data

2010: Visiting scholar at Iowa State University, guest lecture at BCB faculty seminar

2009-2011: M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from Freie Universität Berlin and Charité

2009-2010: Splicing analysis for RNA-Seq in zebra finch genome project at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin

2008-2010: Research assistant at Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Animal Behaviour (Constanze Scharff): "Do birds tango? Biological origins of rhythm as a carrier of emotions" (Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion")

2008: Research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Mark Stoneking): Algorithms for human genomic diversity in population genetics (Marc Bauchet); Phylogenetic approaches towards the evolution of Bantu languages (Brigitte Pakendorf)

2007-2009: B.Sc. in Bioinformatics from Freie Universität Berlin and Charité

2004: Ethnomusicological field research with the Newār people in Bhaktapur, Kathmandu valley, Nepal (Gert-Matthias Wegner): "The role of the dhimay in ritual and processional music during biskaḥ jātrā"

2003-2006: Magister studies, majoring in musicology (Humboldt-Universität Berlin), ethnomusicology (Freie Universität Berlin) and communication research (Technische Universität Berlin)

2002: Civilian service at the home für speech and hearing impaired children in Chemnitz