Guillaume Witz, Imaging Specialist for MIC

Guillaume Witz has joined the Science IT Support unit of the University of Bern in September 2018 with the specific task of supporting MIC scientists. He has then moved in 2023 to the newly created Data Science Lab a core facility of the University of Bern, where he still provides support of the MIC. He obtained a M.Sc in physics and a Ph.D. in biophysics from EPFL, studying DNA biophysics with atomic force microscopy and numerical simulations. He then switched his research field to biology and spent several years studying the bacterial cell cycle using live cell light microscopy at Harvard University and the Biozentrum Basel. During that time he developed software solutions and pipelines to analyze large multi-dimensional data for segmentation, 3D reconstruction, tracking etc. using e.g. Fiji, Python, high-performance computing and machine learning.