Malika Ihle
LMU Open Science Center Coordinator
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMalika Ihle is an open science advocate and coordinator with a decade of experience advancing reproducible, transparent research across organismal biology, ecology, and animal behaviour. As LMU Open Science Center coordinator and former Reproducible Research Oxford lead, she designs training curricula, runs community workshops, and shapes policy to embed reliable research practices at institutional and international levels. Her background as a postdoc and PhD researcher grounds her leadership in hands-on methods, data management, and statistical reproducibility, including teaching courses on efficient, reliable science. A co-founder of SORTEE, she has driven society-wide initiatives from conferences to DEI and mentoring programs, showing a rare blend of grassroots organizing and strategic governance. Practical technical contributions—such as improving R-based collaborative tools and documentation—underscore her attention to reproducible workflows and user-facing clarity. Based in Munich, she combines field‑tested ecological expertise with a communicative, policy-oriented approach to change how science is done.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Master of Science - MS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Université Bourgogne EuropeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
English, French, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (8)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
r10
parameter-tuning9
color-theory8
ggplot7
data-analysis6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lmu-osc/Collaborative-RStudio-GitHub
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:2 reviews, 259 commits, 289 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Malika primarily contributed to the project by modifying R script parameters, specifically focusing on color selection and species names. They added new parameter sets for various species, incorporating color codes and species names. The user also updated and generated HTML documentation, and installed a color picker add-in, indicating a focus on the visual representation of the project.
lmu-osc/Introduction-RStudio-Git-GitHub
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:99 commits, 11 PRs, 128 pushes in 2 years 3 months
version-controlrstudiogit-gui
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