René Ranzinger studied computer science at the universities of applied sciences Zittau/Görlitz (2002) and Darmstadt (2004) and moved to Dr. Willi von der Lieth’s group at the German Cancer Research Center (2005-2009) to work on glycomics databases and mass spectrometric data interpretation software. In 2009 he moved to Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co. KG in Bremen to work on a glycomics module for the Proteinscape software. He received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg in 2010 and joined the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) at the University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia, USA) as a postdoctoral fellow to worked with Will York on Glycobioinformatics tools, databases and standards. In 2013 he became assistant research scientist at the CCRC and 2022 associate research scientist.

Dr. Ranzinger’s work focuses on the development of tools and databases to support Glycosciences research. He has been involved in the development of multiple freely available glycomics databases and knowledgebases including GlyGen, GlyTouCan and the Glycan Array Data Repository. Another interest is the development of software tools for the interpretation of mass spectrometric data. During his PhD he was involved in the development of GlycoWorkbench and GlycoPeakfinder. Starting 2011 he developed GRITS Toolbox at the CCRC. As part of different international working groups Dr. Ranzinger was working on the development of ontologies for glycomics data standardization and the definition of glycomics data reporting guidelines.