Hendrik Erz
Researcher at Linköping University
Norrköping, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolHendrik Erz is a researcher and full-stack developer based in Norrköping, Sweden, blending a decade of academic research in sociology and political science with hands-on software engineering using JavaScript and Node.js. He is a maintainer of the open-source Zettlr project, contributing technical writing and UI/documentation improvements that demonstrate a sensitivity for user experience and multilingual audiences. His work spans machine learning research, technology assessment for autonomous weapons, and large-scale data processing—skills that inform rigorous, reproducible research practice. Currently affiliated with the Institute for Analytical Sociology and pursuing doctoral-level scholarship at Linköping University, he bridges humanities inquiry and software tooling to make research workflows more productive. Notably, he pairs system administration and security-minded infrastructure experience from earlier academic IT roles with active open-source stewardship, making him equally comfortable in code, docs, and institutional research environments.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA International/Global Studies, Master of Arts - MA International/Global Studies at The University of BonnPhD Sociology, PhD Sociology at Linköping University
English, German, French, Swedish
Github Skills (5)
html10
css10
documentation10
website-design9
analytics8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Zettlr/zettlr-docs
May 2019 - Dec 2022
This repository holds the official documentation of Zettlr
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:41 reviews, 210 commits, 134 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Hendrik primarily focused on updating and improving the Zettlr documentation. Their contributions include modifying the CSS for better UI presentation, enabling multi-language support, updating the landing page with improved styling, and adding a warning message for users. The user also added analytics tracking to the documentation site.
zettlrapi-documentation
nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
A list of various lists consisting of academics on Mastodon
Contributions:5 reviews, 150 commits, 139 PRs in 4 months
mastodonacademicslistsscholar
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