Erik Poppleton
Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolErik Poppleton is a multidisciplinary postdoctoral researcher with a PhD in Biological Design and eight years of experience applying molecular simulation, software engineering, and wet-lab work to RNA and nucleic acid design. He develops tools and visualization platforms—most notably leading development on oxView and related oxDNA/RNA tooling—that make complex molecular simulations accessible to experimentalists. Currently based in Heidelberg, he models RNA structural dynamics and RNA-lipid interactions across Kerstin Göpfrich’s and Frauke Gräter’s groups to engineer artificial cell components and probe biomolecular mechanics. Comfortable coding in Python, TypeScript, C++ and Bash, he bridges theory and experiment to iterate design and interpretation rapidly. Colleagues describe him as someone motivated by the “structural beauty” of biology and adept at turning abstract statistical-physics models into usable research software.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological Design, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological Design at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Biology General, Bachelor of Science - BS Biology General at Tufts University
Github Skills (90)
genomics10
simulate10
rna-seq10
systems-biology10
pymol10
blender10
editing10
simulation10
docking10
visualization10
bioinformatics10
robocup10
python-bindings10
proteins10
structural-biology9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sulcgroup/oxdna_analysis_tools
Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
A set of tools to analyze oxDNA/oxRNA simulations of DNA/RNA
Contributions:323 commits, 11 PRs, 182 pushes in 2 years 6 months
dnasimulationsgenomicsbioinformaticsrna-seq
sulcgroup/oxdna-viewer
Apr 2018 - Sep 2022
oxView: Visualization and editing tool for DNA/RNA nanotechnology and oxDNA/oxRNA configuration analysis
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 449 commits in 4 years 6 months
dnagenomicsbioinformaticseditingconfiguration-analysis
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.