Bioinformatician

Email: matthias.weissensteiner@ifv-vogelwarte.de
Tel.: +49 4421 9689 39
ORCID: 0000-0001-9302-798X
Google Scholar: Matthias Weissensteiner
Bluesky: @mweissensteiner.bsky.social

I’m an evolutionary biologist with a background in ornithology and genetics. I am mostly interested genome evolution, repetitive DNA, and population genetics. The majority of my work has been on birds, which I have been fascinated with since my childhood. 

My projects all somehow relate to questions in genomics and genetics. For example, currently I am investigating the genetic basis of melanism of island-dwelling blackcaps, the relatedness of common terns, or the rate of new mutations in Japanese quails. My work as a bioinformatician at the IfV entails implementing and maintaining data management solutions, and bioinformatic support for projects that are carried out at the HPC cluster of the Oldenburg University.