Melanie Nuesch

Melanie Nuesch serves as the Head of the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Platform at the DRFZ. In this role, she oversees the institute’s high-performing computational infrastructure and leads the development of scalable, reproducible workflows for multi-omics analysis (bioinformatics). A computational biologist by training, she pursued her doctoral research in the lab of Prof. Eicke Latz, where she specialized in high-dimensional, multi-omic immune profiling and fingerprinting of patients, as well as the integration of robotic automation with computational pipelines (for diagnostics and therapeutics). Her work focuses on bridging the gap between big data and clinical translation through the application of advanced algorithms, computation and Agentic AI, as well as the biological and medical interpretation of the patient data. Please refer to the HPC Platform website for a full description of ongoing projects and research focus. She comes from Montevideo, Uruguay, where she graduated as a human biologist with a focus on neuroscience, neurogenetics and bioinformatics; moved to Germany for the IMPRS Max Planck program in Neuroscience in Goettingen, and her doctoral program at the University of Bonn, in Molecular Biomedicine (AG Latz).