← runfish
47.3769° N, 8.5417° E
Zürich

Career Journey

Where I've been.

A path across continents — from bioinformatics benches to agentic AI.

Scroll to explore
Zürich, Switzerland
Now · 2024 — Present

Freelance Data Scientist & AI Engineer

runfish · Independent

Building agentic AI workflows and turning scattered scientific text into navigable knowledge graphs. Freelance data-gathering and agentic-LLM projects alongside a semantic-search engine for the scientific literature.

Agentic LLMsKnowledge GraphsNLP
Taipei, Taiwan
Education · 2020 — 2024

PhD Researcher, Bioinformatics

NYCU · Academia Sinica (TIGP)

TIGP scholarship under Pres. James C. Liao (廖俊智) — microbial engineering, mRNA vaccines, and AI for scientific text extraction. Where biology met machine learning.

Microbial EngineeringmRNAAI Text Extraction
Taipei, Taiwan
Experience · 2019 — 2020

Research Assistant

Academia Sinica

Engineered cell-free CO₂-fixation systems with multi-enzymatic pathways that fixed carbon faster than plants. Built metabolic circuits in E. coli and ran adaptive laboratory evolution for industrial feedstock chemicals.

Synthetic BiologyE. coliEnzyme Kinetics
Zürich, Switzerland
Education · 2017 — 2019

MSc, Biochemistry

University of Zürich

Master’s thesis in protein NMR and metal-ion binding under Prof. Oliver Zerbe, with coursework in radiochemistry, bioinformatics, and structural analysis. First serious programming in R and Bash.

Protein NMRBioinformaticsR
Zürich, Switzerland
Experience · 2016 — 2019

Brand Promoter (freelance)

USP Partner AG

Represented premium brands at point-of-sale, trade shows, and street-level events — tastings, demos, and promotions. Funding the science, one weekend at a time.

Brand MarketingEvents
Zürich, Switzerland
Education · 2013 — 2016

BSc, Biochemistry

University of Zürich

A broad scientific foundation — from Physiology & Anatomy through Physical Chemistry. The starting line.

PhysiologyPhysical Chemistry