Danielle Welter
Principal Data Scientist
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Top SchoolDanielle Welter is a Principal Data Scientist with 14 years of experience specialising in metadata standards, ontologies and FAIR data management for clinical, genomic and healthcare interoperability. She has driven semantic modelling and standards work across institutions including EMBL-EBI, the Human Cell Atlas, University of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg National Data Service, helping pharmaceutical and clinical projects operationalise FAIR principles. Her expertise spans software-defined knowledge bases and semantic integration of large biomedical datasets (e.g., GWAS catalog work), bridging research-grade ontologies with practical data management pipelines. Danielle combines deep academic training (PhD in Bioinformatics) with hands-on applied science to make complex clinical-genomic data more reusable and interoperable. Known for translating ontology and metadata standards into usable workflows, she focuses on cultural as well as technical change to maximise scientific value. Based in Luxembourg, she brings a rare mix of domain knowledge, standards leadership and production-level data stewardship.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddBachelor's Degree, Medical Molecular Biology, 2:1, Bachelor's Degree, Medical Molecular Biology, 2:1 at University of Wales, Cardiff
French, German, Luxembourgish, English
Github Skills (117)
ontology10
semantic-web10
metadata10
infrastructure10
owl10
ontologies10
catalog10
semantics10
foundry10
cookbook10
open-science10
rdf10
factor10
open-source10
maturity10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
EBISPOT/goci
Dec 2011 - Sep 2017
GWAS Catalog Ontology and Curation Infrastructure
Contributions:1448 commits, 5 PRs, 759 pushes in 5 years 10 months
infrastructurecurationgwas-cataloggwasobofoundry
datatagsuite/context
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
DATS context files
Contributions:1 release, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 4 months
json-lddats
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