Egon Willighagen
Universitair Docent at Universiteit Maastricht
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolEgon Willighagen is a Universitair Docent at Maastricht University with 22 years of experience at the intersection of chemistry, bioinformatics, and open science. He researches the chemistry of life within translational genomics, is a driving force behind the Chemistry Development Kit, and champions reproducible research as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cheminformatics. His postdoctoral work across leading European institutions included text mining (OSCAR4), nanoQSAR, and toxicology data integration—skills he now applies to teaching and building open-source tools. Known for combining deep chemical knowledge with software development, he also maintains a visible open-science presence and an ORCID that tracks a prolific, collaborative research portfolio.
22 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Radboud University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
semantic-web10
biblatex10
metadata10
specification10
pdb-files10
api10
uri10
open-access10
wikidata10
identifier10
groovy10
nano10
owl-api10
citation-js10
faunadb10
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
NanoCommons/erm-database
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
Database of ERM identifiers with research output associated with them
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 118 pushes in 1 year 5 months
BiGCAT-UM/imd-pathway-curation
Jul 2022 - Dec 2024
WikiPathways Curation for just the IMD pathways
Contributions:1 PR, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
pathwayscurationimdwikiwikipathways
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