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title: "SciLifeLab"
description: "SciLifeLab is a centre for life sciences in Sweden. It's a collaboration between four Swedish universities (Stockholm Univeristy, Karolinska Institute, KTH, Uppsala University)."
url: "https://phil.ewels.co.uk/work/scilifelab"
site: "phil.ewels.co.uk"
author: "Phil Ewels"
section: "Work"
location: "Stockholm, Sweden"
website: "https://www.scilifelab.se"
dates: "2014-05-01 to 2022-05-01"
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# SciLifeLab

> SciLifeLab is a centre for life sciences in Sweden. It's a collaboration between four Swedish universities (Stockholm Univeristy, Karolinska Institute, KTH, Uppsala University).

I worked at the National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI), a technology platform at SciLifeLab offering genomics as a service to researchers across Sweden and abroad.

The NGI is a world-class centre and I was lucky to work with development of cutting edge library preparation, sequencing and bioinformatics methods during my time there.

## Positions held

I worked at the NGI for eight years and held a range of different positions, working with bioinformatics, software engineering and management.

I worked witihn the Genomics Applications Development facility in Stockholm. The group develops and scales up new computation analyses and lab protocols for next-generation sequencing data in collaboration with users across Sweden.

- **Team Leader: Bioinformatics development** (Jul 2019 - Apr 2022) — Team leader for bioinformatics development at the NGI, a new position and team. We developed exciting new tools and techniques for the processing and analysis of next-generation sequencing data.
- **Head of Facility** (Oct 2017 - Jul 2019) — I managed a team of 8-12 people and was responsible for recruitment, strategy and direction - both in the lab and in data analysis. I was heavily involved in the running of the larger NGI infrastructure, co-writing grants and reports.
- **Deputy Head of Facility** (Jan 2016 - Oct 2017) — Bioinformatician and systems developer. As deputy head of facility, I helped the head of the facility in running the group when they were busy or unavailable.
- **Bioinformatician** (May 2014 - Jan 2016) — I am developed new analysis techniques and pipelines for next-generation sequencing data, as well as doing custom analysis in collaboration with users.

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From the personal website of Phil Ewels, a software developer and bioinformatician in Stockholm, Sweden: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/
The whole site as Markdown: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/llms.txt