Alexander Minges
Referent Für Forschungsdatenmanagement
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Minges is a data stewardship and research data management professional with a 15-year trajectory from structural biology research to institutional data services. Trained as a biochemist and Dr. rer. nat. in structural biology, he spent a decade in academia as a PhD candidate and postdoc before shifting to data manager and data steward roles at Universität Duisburg‑Essen and now as Referent für Forschungsdatenmanagement at Technische Universität Darmstadt. He blends deep domain knowledge of macromolecular structure and dynamics with practical experience building user-centered data workflows, metadata practices, and reproducible research pipelines. An active contributor to open-source projects, he has applied front-end skills to improve the UX of the popular Bangle.js smartwatch calendar, showing a willingness to cross technical boundaries to enhance usability. Based in Düsseldorf, he is adept at translating complex scientific requirements into auditable, interoperable data solutions for research institutions.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat., Structural Biology, Dr. rer. nat., Structural Biology at University of Düsseldorf
German, English
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
smartwatch9
web-bluetooth9
localization8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
espruino/BangleApps
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Bangle.js App Loader (and Apps)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on enhancing the calendar application within the Bangle.js app ecosystem. Their contributions included modifying the calendar's user interface, such as using non-dithering colors, updating the font size and font type for date displays, and compressing the application's icon. They also incorporated settings for users to customize aspects like the starting day of the week and color schemes, adapting the UI based on hardware version. The user's work improved the calendar's aesthetics, localization, and overall user experience within the smartwatch context.
javascriptloadersmartwatchwebbluetooth
Athemis/elabftw
Feb 2015 - Jul 2025
Lab manager, experiment notebook, database for research labs
Contributions:3 PRs, 294 pushes, 72 branches in 10 years 7 months
notebookdatabaseexperiment-managerlab
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