Maria Lehtivaara
Applications Specialist
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMaria Lehtivaara is an Applications Specialist with 11 years’ experience applying bioinformatics, software support, and training to bioscience research and core facilities. Based in Helsinki, she has led customer-facing support and service development for Chipster while co-coordinating a Scientific Computing Ambassador program at CSC. Her background combines hands-on NGS and microarray analysis, project management for drug-discovery software commercialization, and R/Bioconductor data work from roles in academia and industry. Maria’s strength is translating complex computational workflows into usable tools and training for researchers, ensuring data quality, reproducibility, and smooth IT operations. She holds an M.Sc. in Biotechnology and brings a rare mix of wet-lab experience, computational analysis, and customer-oriented service development.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biotechnology, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biotechnology at Tampere University of Technology
Finnish, English, Swedish
Github Skills (8)
csc10
single-cell-genomics10
cran10
user-friendly9
throughput9
rna-seq8
data-analysis3
data-science1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chipster/chipster-tools
Feb 2015 - Feb 2023
Chipster analysis tool scripts
Contributions:590 commits, 7 PRs, 554 pushes in 8 years
CSCfi/csc-user-guide
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
User guides, FAQs and tutorials related to CSC services
Contributions:11 reviews, 283 commits, 32 PRs in 4 years 1 month
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