About us

Markus is the chief technology officer and a co-founder of Bright Giant. During his PhD, he developed algorithms and software solutions for computational phylogenetics. He has a long-standing experience as a lead developer, coordinating the software development of SIRIUS and developing essential parts of the software and the web service infrastructure. Now he directs the development of the software solutions and the IT-Infrastructure at Bright Giant.

Andri joined Bright Giant in 2023 as a Senior Software Developer, bringing a decade of software engineering experience, and a passion for clean code, clean architecture and clean interfaces. He previously worked in the space sector, writing software for modelling satellites, and applying formal methods. In his spare time he loves rock climbing, playing guitar, and developing computer games.

Kai is co-founder of Bright Giant. He earned his doctorate in computational mass spectrometry, being the lead developer of CSI:FingerID. He has many years of experience in algorithm development and machine learning.

Franziska joined Bright Giant in 2023 as the Scientific Outreach Coordinator. She received her PhD in computational mass spectrometry for small molecules and developed efficient algorithms to calculate and compare fragmentation trees from electron ionization spectra. She has many years of experience in outreach and equal opportunity, and has coordinated a research network for several years. On a personal note, she enjoys the outdoors biking or hiking, and loves books, coffee, and octopuses.

Sebastian is co-founder of Bright Giant. He has over two decades of experience working on computational methods for the analysis of mass spectrometry data. Today, his lab at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena is one of the world-leading groups in algorithmic mass spectrometry for small molecules. The development of SIRIUS started in his lab. Since then, he and his team work consistently to ensure that the methods are not only best in class, but also as easy as possible for users to access. He brings his long-standing experience as a scientific advisor to Bright Giant.

Marcus is the chief executive officer and a co-founder of Bright Giant. He earned his doctorate in computational mass spectrometry, working on algorithms for molecular formula and structure annotation. He has a long-standing experience in Bayesian optimization, solving small molecule annotation on whole-dataset level, and aims to advance such holistic approaches for small molecule annotation. As a part of Bright Giant, he focuses on business relations and funding opportunities.

Martin is the chief customer officer and a co-founder of Bright Giant. He did his PhD in computational mass spectrometry, focusing on confidence estimation of molecular structure predictions. As a part of Bright Giant GmbH, he manages the customer relations.

Martin joined Bright Giant in 2023 as a Senior Scientist. He received his PhD in computational mass spectrometry and algorithm engineering, developing a software framework to quantitatively analyze synthetic polymer sequences. Martin has a long-standing experience in software engineering, high-performance computing and machine learning and loves to write innovative and clean software to tackle complex problems. On a personal note, he is a Pratchett, Moers and Star Trek enthusiast.