Jan Janssen is a materials informatics group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials with 11 years of experience bridging computational materials science and software engineering. He combines a PhD-backed research background with hands-on contributions to prominent open-source projects—improving cross-platform installation for LAMMPS, maintaining interactive molecular viewers in nglview, and automating conda build pipelines—demonstrating both back-end and front-end fluency. His career includes postdoctoral fellowships at Los Alamos and invited residencies at premier institutes, reflecting a track record of collaborative, high-impact research. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often focuses on reproducible tooling and installability—an underappreciated but crucial aspect that boosts usability across platforms.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Paderborn University
IMPRS-SurMat
Advanced Degree (Master equivalent), Advanced Degree (Master equivalent) at University of Kaiserslautern
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 comments in 3 years 2 months
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Jan Janssen - Group Leader For Materials Informatics