Sverre Branders

Sverre Branders serves as a Lecturer in Biostatistics and PhD student at the University of Inland Norway (INN), affiliated with the Faculty of Applied Ecology, Agricultural Sciences and Biotechnology and the Department of Biotechnology at the Hamar study location. He has held a research fellowship in machine learning and bioinformatics at INN since May 2023.

With a molecular biology background, Sverre previously worked as a senior laboratory engineer at INN during 2022-2023 before transitioning to informatics and data science. His technical expertise includes programming languages such as C++, Python, and R. His doctoral research focuses on developing machine learning and bioinformatics algorithms for rapid detection of infection-causing bacteria and antimicrobial resistance.

Sverre collaborates internationally with The Advanced Imaging Lab at Harvard and the Department of Physics and Technology at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. As lead developer of the voyager taxonomy software, he contributes to innovative pathogen identification systems. His research spans both environmental applications (biofilm functionality in wastewater treatment) and clinical diagnostics (nanopore sequencing for pathogen detection).

He is actively involved in two major projects: MysteryMaster (focused on novel diagnostic solutions for infection and AMR) and Voyager. Sverre is a member of research group B3 - Bioinformatics, bio-discovery and biorefining, where he applies computational approaches to biological challenges.