Ben Bowen
Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab
Walnut Creek, California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Bowen is a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Computational Metabolomics Lead at the Joint Genome Institute with 15 years of experience applying mass spectrometry, chemoinformatics, and high-performance computing to biological and environmental problems. He builds scalable HPC workflows and algorithmic tools—such as Metabolite Atlas, OpenMSI, MAGI, BLINK, and SIMILE—for spectral alignment, molecular networking, and integrative metabolomics. His work bridges mathematics, chemistry, and bioinformatics to enable data-driven discoveries in bioenergy, ecology, and human health. Based in Walnut Creek, CA, Ben combines deep academic training (PhD in Chemical Engineering/Biophysics) with hands-on software and mentoring experience from academia to national labs. He is known for translating complex mass-spec challenges into reproducible computational platforms that serve the DOE user community. A less obvious strength is his track record of adapting analytical techniques across domains, revealing new ecological interactions among plants, microbes, and environments.
15 years of coding experience
PhD, Chemical Engineering / Biophysics, PhD, Chemical Engineering / Biophysics at Arizona State UniversityBS, Chemical Engineering, BS, Chemical Engineering at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (42)
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jupyter-notebook8
mass-spectrometry8
databases8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
biorack/pathway_tools_docker
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
settingdocker-filespathwayinstructionsdocker
benbowen/thoughts
Aug 2015 - May 2025
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 9 years 11 months
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