Stefan Rodiger's Biography

Stefan Rodiger, Group Leader, BTU Cottbus Senftenberg

Dr. Rödiger graduated as engineer in Pharmabiotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences Jena. Later, he worked at the University of Jena, Technical University of Dresden and Max Plank institute Dresden as a scientist. During his doctoral thesis he focused on cardiomyocyte gene expression analysis and the development of a novel assay platform for the detection and quantification of proteins and nucleic acids. Currently, Dr. Rödiger is a group leader at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg where he intensified his interest in the development of diagnostic tools for human diseases and applied statistical bioinformatics. His research deals with methods, like multiplex real-time quantitative PCR, microbead-based technologies, digital PCR, isothermal amplification, microfluidics as well as methodologies based on proteins in the field of autoimmune diagnostics. Dr. Rödiger contributed open source software packages for applied statistical bioinformatics to exploite amplification curve, melting curve data and digital PCR data. Dr. Rödiger is an active developer of several software packages (chipPCR, MBmca, dpcR, RDML) for the statistical computing language R to support reproducible research and open data exchange.