Justine Vandendorpe
Data Steward Within NFDI4Microbiota
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJustine Vandendorpe is a data steward with nine years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of life sciences, research data management, and reproducible practices, currently advancing microbial omics curation within NFDI4Microbiota at ZB MED in Cologne. She has trained over 500 researchers as a Carpentries instructor, coordinates a seven-person RDM training team, and contributes to community resources like the FAIRsFAIR handbook and the NFDI4Microbiota Knowledge Base. Her background as an EU researcher in computational evolutionary biology brings hands-on lab experience, global fieldwork and project coordination skills to data-centric roles, enabling fluent communication between bench scientists and data infrastructures. She also has a track record in automating data workflows—from weather and agricultural datasets to repository finders—and advising on ELNs and DMPs, reflecting a pragmatic blend of technical automation and domain expertise. Known for curiosity-driven initiatives, she seeks roles that combine collaboration, environmental impact, and continuous learning.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Organism Biology and Ecology, Biodiversity, Master in Organism Biology and Ecology, Biodiversity at Université catholique de Louvain
French, English, Dutch, German
Stackoverflow
325reputation
15kreached
2answers
6questions
Github Skills (10)
microbiology10
concatenation6
algorithm6
xlsx6
phylogeny6
xlconnect6
excel6
loops6
dataframe6
r6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NFDI4Microbiota/nfdi4microbiota-knowledge-base
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The NFDI4Microbiota Knowledge Base
Contributions:131 commits, 28 PRs, 354 pushes in 5 months
nfdi4microbiotanfdiknowledge-baseknowledgemicrobiology
jvddorpe/Incubation-Ecology
Oct 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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