WEHI Bioinformatics

Dr Matt Ritchie

Senior Research Officer

+61 3 9345 2324

mritchie @ wehi.edu.au

Background

Matt Ritchie completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Mathematics) with First class Honours at Central Queensland University (Rockhampton, Australia), majoring in Statistics in 1999. Matt then worked as a Risk Analysis Scientist at the Department of Primary Industries (Brisbane, Australia) before starting a PhD on the analysis of two-colour microarray data with Gordon Smyth at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. Since graduating in 2005, he has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at EMBL-EBI (Hinxton, UK) in the Huber Group and in the Computational Biology Group at the University of Cambridge.

Research

Matt's research focuses on low-level analysis issues for different microarray technologies, including Illumina BeadArrays, and he actively develops open-source software for the analysis of such data.

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