Ben Haller
Specialist Editor (freelance) at Stick Software
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBen Haller is an evolutionary ecologist and software developer with 11+ years blending computational modeling and biology to study speciation, gene flow, and adaptive divergence. He builds and maintains eco-evolutionary simulations (notably contributing to SLiM work at the Messer lab), writes Mac OS X apps in Objective-C/Cocoa, and edits scientific manuscripts across the biological sciences as a freelance specialist editor. His background includes a PhD from McGill, postdoctoral research on environmental variation and selection, and senior engineering roles at Apple, giving him rare fluency across research, software engineering, and science communication. Actively seeking roles that translate research into real-world impact, he’s open to teaching, policy, NGO work, or publishing—leveraging both technical depth and a talent for clear scientific writing.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityHigh school, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program, High school, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program at Alternative Community SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (56)
simulation10
genetics10
git10
simulate10
github10
electron10
python10
typescript10
genetic10
github-desktop10
flatpak10
scripting-language10
phylogenetics10
bioinformatics10
slim10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
MesserLab/asymptoticMK
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
A web-based tool for estimating alpha, the fraction of nucleotide substitutions in a given genomic region that were driven to fixation by positive selection.
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 10 months
pythonfractionweb-basedestimatingfixation
tskit-dev/tskit-paper
Oct 2021 - Jan 2026
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 comments in 4 years 4 months
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