The Team

• Management
• Team Members
• Career Opportunities

Management

Dr. Michael R. Alvers has extensive management experience in various high-tech companies in positions such as Director Bioinformatics, Director Product Marketing and Business and Director Product Development. In addition, he has considerable experience managing large software projects. He is the initiator and creator of Proteomweaver, an award-winning software package for biological image analysis. He has total responsibility for the company's strategic business direction, corporate finances and staffing.

Michael received a Masters degree in Geophysics and holds a Ph.D. in Geophysics, both from the Free University of Berlin. He has studied and worked in Berlin, Stanford, Munich and La Plata, Argentina. He has attended and conducted various expeditions to the Central Andes and to the North Pole. Michael also holds a private pilot's license.

Prof. Dr. Michael Schroeder is a professor of bioinformatics in both TU Dresden's Biotechnological Center and Computer Science Faculty. His research focuses on protein interactions derived from protein structures and from the scientific literature using textmining. His group has developed www.gopubmed.com as well as www.scoppi.org. He has published over 140 peer review articles on his research and manages a number of national and international research projects worth over 4.7 Mio. Euro including the EU projects Sealife, REWERSE and the BMWi project GoOn. He is a member of the W3C's Health Care and Life Science Interest Group. Before moving to Dresden in 2003 he worked for 6 years at City University in London as a lecturer and senior lecturer.

Michael holds a PhD from the University of Hannover and has studied and worked in Karlsruhe, Aachen, London and Lisbon.

Dr. Liliana Barrio-Alvers worked for 14 years as a scientist at the University of La Plata, Argentina and for more than 6 years as a professor of Geophysics. In Europe, she moved into computing, computer linguistics and applied techniques used in geophysics for information extraction. In her 6-year industry carrier at companies such as SailLabs AG, Comprendium AG, Definiens AG, the Max-Planck-Institut for Biochemistry in Munich and interActive Systems GmbH, she worked as a research scientist and a specialist in information extraction. At Transinsight she is responsible for the technical coordination between University research and the industrial realization of software on the company side.

Liliana holds a PhD in Geophysics from the University of La Plata, Argentina. The research for this thesis was done at the Freie Universität Berlin under the umbrella of a DAAD fellowship. She studied and worked in Buenos Aires, Munich and Berlin.

Team Members

Career Opportunities

• Senior Software Developer
• Developer
• IT System Administrator
• Sales representative
• General requirements for all positions
• Working in Dresden

Transinsight is a Dresden-based award-winning startup company that creates next generation search technologies for the life sciences. Our product www.GoPubMed.com is the first knowledge-based search engine in the world. Transinsight develops GoPubMed in close collaboration with the bioinformatics group of the Biotechnological Center of the Technical University Dresden. The Center hosts 20 biotech companies and several academic groups dedicated to genomics, proteomics, biophysics, tissue engineering, cellular machines as well as bioinformatics. It is an ideal environment in which to develop a product closely aligned to customer needs.

We are a young, dynamic, international team of computer and life scientists with the mission of bringing cutting-edge research in ontologies and text mining to the global market. In order to carry out our vision of becoming the best search engine (for the life sciences) we are looking for bright, motivated people to join our team. We are currently seeking the following team members:

Senior Software Developer

The senior software developer will be responsible for the further development of our applications and makes design decisions for next releases.

The applicant should have experience in:

• Several years experience in design of large applications
• Deep knowledge of the java develepment kit
• Experience with scaled and multi tier web applications
• JEE knowledge will be helpful
• Automated testing

Skills in most of the following areas are required:

• Java, Javascript
• XML, Html, CSS
• UML Knowledge and Design Patterns
• MySQL, Hibernate
• Linux, Windows
• Subversion, Configuration Management

Developer

The developer will be responsible the development of new features for our platforms.

The applicant should have experience in:

• Several years experience in development of java applications
• Experience with web applications
• Hibernate and MySQL

Skills in the following areas are required:

• Java
• Html, CSS
• SQL
• XML

IT System Administrator

The IT system administrator will be responsible for planning, setup and operation of our Linux IT infrastructure, network and worldwide VPN-connections.

The applicant should have experience in:

• Setting up and operating firewalls and VPN-equipment
• Supporting equipment running Windows and Linux environments
• Supporting the file server, mail server, web applications and backup system
• Supporting business-critical data network hardware

Skills in one or more of the following areas are required:

• Administration of databases
• Debian Linux (UNIX, Mac OS X)
• Apache Tomcat

Sales Representative

The sales representative will be responsible for creating sales and marketing a cutting-edge search engine for the life sciences.

Responsibilities include:

• Creating sales and pricing models
• Creating sales channels
• Directing marketing

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience in sales in the life science industry
• Proven track record in sales in the life science industry
• Extensive experience in selling software in the life science industry

General Requirements for All Positions

We are aiming to build the best search engine for the life sciences. To reach this ambitious goal we are looking for the brightest and most creative individuals available. "Must-have" -qualities include:

• Ability to work in a team environment and positive team attitude
• Written and verbal English communication skills
• Good communication skills in German
• Strong analytical and problem solving abilities
• Strong sense of responsibility
• Self-directed and able to express ideas clearly

Please send your CV including at least two references to jobs@transinsight.com.

Working in Dresden

Although Dresden was largely destroyed during the Second World War, it still lives up to its nickname "Florence on the Elbe". Its sumptuous art collections and impressive monuments and buildings have given the city worldwide fame. Dresden is also a research and science city, as well as an important industrial stronghold. First and foremost, however, it is a first-rate city of culture, with world-famous ensembles such as the Saxon State Opera, the State Chapel and the Kreuzchor singers. In 2006 Dresden turned 800 years old. The river Elbe divides Dresden into the old city and the new city.