Summary
Julien Colomb is a research project manager and former neuro-geneticist with 13 years' experience bridging bench science and open research practices, now focused on FAIR open-source research hardware and urban manufacturing at TU Berlin. He spent a decade studying fruit fly memory and behavior and has translated that experimental rigor into reproducible data analysis, research data management, and lab workflow change through projects like GIN-Tonic. As founder and CEO of Drososhare since 2012, he combines entrepreneurship with technical stewardship for sharing biological materials and metadata. Julien has led data curation at Humboldt University and built state-of-the-art analysis pipelines (R, Shiny, markdown) for behavioral studies, reflecting a rare mix of wet-lab expertise, tooling, and community-focused infrastructure. Based in Berlin, he is passionate about the social and technical levers that make open science practical and scalable.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PHd, biology, PHd, biology at Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg
collège de saint-Maurice
FELASA B, work with rodents, -, FELASA B, work with rodents, - at Humboldt University of Berlin
-, Management and moderation, -, Management and moderation at ARTOP workshop
English, German, French