PhD Researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
I study microbial communities in wastewater treatment systems using metagenomics and bioinformatics.
- π¦ Methanotrophic bacteria, anammox, and microbial ecology in engineered systems
- 𧬠Metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), functional annotation, and taxonomic profiling
- π» HPC workflows on SLURM clusters using Nextflow, bash, and Python
- π¬ Investigating the methane paradox in partial nitrification-anammox reactors
- π Co-founder of DreamSpace Biolab β Sri Lanka's first citizen-science lab
- π Swedish Institute Scholarship recipient
I am open to collaborations in:
- Microbial ecology and wastewater metagenomics
- Bioinformatics pipeline development
- Science communication and open science
π§ hettige@chalmers.se
π LinkedIn
π crisdiwenn.com