Amer Ghalawinji

• Developing integrative bioinformatics pipelines for oncological data
• Contributing to the automation and computational support of molecular tumor board (MTB)
• Implementing advanced data visualization

2024–ongoing:

• Bioinformatics Postdoctoral research fellow

2020–2024:

• Doctoral Thesis – University of Münster, Institute of Human Genetics
  Thesis: “Contribution of Non-Coding RNA to The Pathogenesis of Cardiovascular Diseases”
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Monika Stoll

2016–2019:

• Master of Science – Bioinformatics, University of Saarland
  Thesis: “EpiPrimer Software; Bioinformatics Pipeline with GUI for DNA Methylation Data Analysis Using Shiny R package”
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jörn Walter

2008–2014:

• Bachelor of Science – Biomedical Engineering, University of Münster
  Thesis: “Design of a Hidden Markov Model Based Speech Recognition System to Help Patients with Hearing Disorders”
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hani Amasha

Functions:

• Bioinformatics / IT

• Schulz, C., Lemoine, M.D., Mearini, G., Koivumäki, J., Sani, J., Schwedhelm, E., Kirchhof, P., Ghalawinji, A., Stoll, M., Hansen, A. and Eschenhagen, T., 2023. PITX2 Knockout Induces Key Findings of Electrical Remodeling as Seen in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation. Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 16(3), p.e011602.
• Herrera-Rivero, M., Gandhi, S., Witten, A., Ghalawinji, A., Schotten, U. and Stoll, M., 2022. Cardiac chamber-specific genetic alterations suggest candidate genes and pathways implicating the left ventricle in the pathogenesis of atrial fibrillation. Genomics, 114(2), p.110320.
• Zeemering, S., Isaacs, A., Winters, J., Kawczynski, M., Rivero, M. H., Ghalawinji, A., … & Schotten, U. (2022). BS-515-04 REPLICATED GENE EXPRESSION CHANGES IN PATIENTS WITH PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION. Heart Rhythm, 19(5), S52-S53.