Abel Jansma
Fellow At The Dutch Institute For Emergent Phenomena at University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAbel Jansma is a theoretical physicist turned biomedical AI researcher with eight years of experience exploring the physics of machine learning, causality, and their applications in biomedicine. Currently a Fellow at the Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena in Amsterdam, he previously held a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute and completed a PhD focused on using physics language to understand interactions and causal structure in genetic networks. Abel bridges rigorous theory (information theory, category-theoretic models) with practical R&D—leading the Stator software package at Edinburgh and contributing to interdisciplinary teams on bioinformatics and causal inference. His background includes work on modeling flows in complex systems with the Ethereum Foundation and hands-on experimental projects, reflecting a rare blend of abstract math, software development, and lab-adjacent engineering. Colleagues describe him as someone who finds concrete computational insights from deep theoretical tools, often revealing non-obvious connections between statistical physics and biomedical signal interpretation.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Master student, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Visiting Master student, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenPhD, Biomedical AI, PhD, Biomedical AI at The University of EdinburghMaster of Science, Theoretical Physics, Master of Science, Theoretical Physics at Universiteit van AmsterdamPropedeuse, New Media Design, Propedeuse, New Media Design at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)High School, Grammar School, followed Nature and Technology track., High School, Grammar School, followed Nature and Technology track. at Vossius Gymnasium
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (27)
epf10
bioinformatics7
react7
nextflow5
reproducible-science5
slurm5
reproducible-research5
dsl4
singularity4
docker4
groovy4
pipeline4
python4
aws4
rna-seq4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AJnsm/ajnsm.github.io
Jun 2020 - Feb 2023
Personal webpage
Contributions:183 commits, 18 PRs, 229 pushes in 2 years 9 months
reactpersonal-webpagewebpage
AJnsm/Stator
Dec 2020 - Jan 2025
STATOR: A Nexflow pipeline to infer cell types, subtypes, and states from gene expression data.
Contributions:91 pushes, 2 branches, 3 comments in 4 years 1 month
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