Robert Oeffner
Senior Research Associate
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRobert Oeffner is a senior research software engineer with 17 years of experience building and maintaining computational pipelines for X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM, currently developing imaging software at Astex Pharmaceuticals. He spent over a decade at the University of Cambridge in Randy Read’s group, implementing key tools for maximum-likelihood molecular replacement and contributing to widely used packages like Phaser, PHENIX and CCP4. With a PhD in theoretical chemistry and an early career in instrument and microscopy software at Carl Zeiss, he blends deep domain science with practical engineering. Colleagues rely on him for robust, production-ready code that bridges experimental workflows and structural biology, and his long-term focus on improving protein structure determination underpins much of his work. An understated detail: his career spans both academic research software and commercial imaging systems, giving him rare insight into turning cutting-edge methods into reliable pipelines.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Theoretical Chemistry, Ph.D., Theoretical Chemistry at University of CambridgeStudentereksamen (or high school diploma), Studentereksamen (or high school diploma) at Stenhus GymnasiumM. Sc. and B.A., Physics, Chemistry, M. Sc. and B.A., Physics, Chemistry at Københavns Universitet
German, Danish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
histogram10
crystallography10
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
web-application9
sqlite-extension9
scientific-visualization8
ssh8
openssh8
windows8
javascript8
webgl7
diffraction7
cpp6
mass-spectrometry6
sqlite6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Oeffner/SQLiteHistograms
Aug 2017 - Jul 2020
An SQLite extension library for creating histogram tables, tables of ratio between histograms and interpolation tables of scatter point tables
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 2 years 11 months
histogramsqlite-extension
Oeffner/MtzExtInfoTip
Jul 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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