Lex Nederbragt
Teaching Professor (Dosent) at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolLex Nederbragt is a Teaching Professor (Dosent) at the University of Oslo with 14+ years shaping bioscience education through integrating computing, programming and AI-driven pedagogies. He leads the Computing in Science Education initiative and designed the introductory computational modelling course for bioscience undergraduates, teaching Python-based mathematical modelling from day one. A trained biologist and bioinformatician (PhD Utrecht), he combines hands-on genomics and sequencing platform experience with curriculum design informed by reverse instructional design and constructive alignment. He coordinates credited courses for the Centre for Bioinformatics and contributes to community teaching infrastructure, including content refinement for the widely used Carpentries workshop template. Recognized as an excellent teaching practitioner and national award winner for outstanding science teaching, he prioritizes student-active learning and upskilling educators in digital and AI tools. Less obvious: his career bridges front-line sequencing research and scalable teaching practices, turning complex bioinformatics workflows into accessible classroom experiences.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biology, Embryology, Evolution, PhD, Biology, Embryology, Evolution at Utrecht University
English, Dutch, Norwegian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
content-management-system10
template-tags10
templater10
template-engine10
content-management10
documentation10
self-organization10
html9
jupyter-notebook6
singularity-container6
python6
jupyter6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
carpentries/workshop-template
Jan 2016 - Nov 2018
The Carpentries Workshop Template
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Content Strategist
Technical Writer / Content StrategistContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Lex primarily contributed to refining the workshop template's content and user guidance. They made several changes to `index.html` to improve clarity, including clarifying instructions for users and correcting information. Furthermore, they updated schedule templates by making them more inclusive and fixing minor typos, thereby enhancing the overall user experience of the template.
templatecarpentries-infrastructureworkshopjstreetemplates
lexnederbragt/stupid_test_repo
Jan 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 3 months
python
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