Florian Büttner
DKTK Professor at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Büttner is a DKTK Professor and interdisciplinary research scientist with 14 years of experience applying probabilistic machine learning to cancer radiotherapy, genomics and industry problems. He holds a PhD in Physics and has led teams at Helmholtz and EMBL-EBI before moving into senior research and key expert roles at Siemens, blending academic rigor with product-focused ML practice. Florian has published across oncology, bioinformatics and physics, presents at ML conferences, and is skilled at translating complex methods to clinicians, statisticians and engineers. He also contributes to open-source tooling—improving cross-platform behavior in the widely used libgit2sharp library—reflecting practical engineering attention to robustness and portability. Fluent in four languages and having lived in four countries, he brings global collaboration experience and a knack for framing technical work around real-world clinical impact.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange year, Physics, Exchange year, Physics at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaMSc, Medical Physics, MSc, Medical Physics at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at The Institute of Cancer Research, U. of LondonMSc thesis, MSc thesis at Harvard Medical School
German, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (9)
version-control10
libgit2sharp10
git10
dotnet-new10
libgit210
dotnet10
csharp10
paths10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
libgit2/libgit2sharp
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
Git + .NET = ❤
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Florian primarily focused on enhancing the `libgit2sharp` library's handling of file paths and directory separators, particularly on Windows systems. They modified the `Index` and `IndexEntry` classes to accommodate native Windows paths, and updated the `RetrieveStatus` method to return native file paths. In addition, the user addressed issues related to removing files from the index, making `Index.Remove()` function correctly with deleted or modified files. Their work improved the library's cross-platform compatibility and reliability.
dotnetversion-controllibgit2monogit-gui
fbezdeka/kas
Jul 2020 - Nov 2023
Setup tool for bitbake based projects
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
bitbakesetup-tool
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