Lars Schöbitz
Open Science Specialist at Global Health Engineering
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolLars Schöbitz is an Open Science Specialist and environmental engineer with 10 years of experience applying data science to global water, sanitation and health (WASH) challenges. He designs and teaches reproducible research workflows and Data Science with R for universities, government agencies and practitioners, while also developing research software and R packages that streamline analytics and reporting. Lars has led city-wide faecal sludge management projects, advised sanitation ventures, and supported SDG monitoring—bringing hands-on field experience together with reproducible computational practices. Based in Zurich, he’s equally at home mentoring PhD students or building R Shiny dashboards for public institutions, and his background in messy fieldwork (including pit-latrine sampling) gives him uncommon empathy for practical implementation constraints. In his spare time he crochets, bakes, runs and codes, reflecting a meticulous, creative approach to both data and design.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
ERASMUS Exchange Program, Environmental Science, ERASMUS Exchange Program, Environmental Science at Umeå universitet / Umeå UniversityMaster's degree (Diploma Engineer), Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology, Master's degree (Diploma Engineer), Environmental Engineering Technology/Environmental Technology at Fachhochschule Giessen-FriedbergProject Management, Project Management at Mikkeli University, FinlandGeneral qualification for university entrance (A-levels, Abitur),, General qualification for university entrance (A-levels, Abitur), at Gymnasium am Wall, Verden/Aller
German, English, French, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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4answers
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Github Skills (77)
r-package10
r9
latex9
plastic9
spatial9
maps8
markdown7
pandoc7
openxlsx6
knitr6
excel6
hugo6
csv6
ropensci6
purrr6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openwashdata/website
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
The website of the openwashdata community.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 124 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Global-Health-Engineering/data-public-waste-skips-blantyre
Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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