Gert-jan Bekker
Specially Appointed Lecturer at The University of Osaka
Osaka, Japan
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Top SchoolGert-jan Bekker is a computational drug design researcher and software engineer based in Osaka with 10 years of experience bridging molecular biophysics and full-stack web development. He develops WebGL visualization tools—most notably the molecular viewer Molmil—and applies MD-based techniques for ligand binding/unbinding and molecular docking. His career spans academic research, database-driven web services for structural biology (PDBj), and production software from webshops to clinical data systems, reflecting strong backend and frontend skills (JavaScript/Node, Python, SQL). As a PhD-trained scientist who also built and maintained research web infrastructure, he uniquely translates complex biophysical algorithms into usable web applications for both researchers and the broader community.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Osaka UniversityBachelor's degree, Bioinformatics, Bachelor's degree, Bioinformatics at Hogeschool van Arnhem en NijmegenMaster of Science (MSc), Medical Biology, Master of Science (MSc), Medical Biology at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen / University of Nijmegen
English, Dutch, Japanese
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Github Skills (9)
bank6
mining5
parallel3
pyspark3
apache-spark3
protein-data-bank2
spark2
apache2
big-data2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gjbekker/molmil
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:246 commits, 122 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 3 months
gjbekker/cif-parsers
Dec 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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