Ruben Arslan
Researcher at Universität Witten/Herdecke
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRuben Arslan is a researcher and open-science advocate based in Berlin with 14 years of experience investigating genetic and hormonal drivers of individual differences in personality, intelligence, and sexuality. He combines rigorous empirical research and teaching at Witten/Herdecke University with hands-on development of reproducible research tools, including contributions to formr and R packages documenting statistical analyses. Trained with a magna cum laude Dr. rer. nat. in Personality Psychology from Göttingen, he has held research roles at Leipzig University, the Max Planck Institute, and Göttingen, bridging methods, measurement, and research software engineering. Notably, he runs a public error-bounty policy and an anonymous feedback channel on his website, underscoring his commitment to transparency and continuous self-correction.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, PSYCHOLOGY, 1.3, Diploma, PSYCHOLOGY, 1.3 at Humboldt University of BerlinDr. rer. nat., Personality Psychology, magna cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Personality Psychology, magna cum laude at The University of Göttingen
English, German, Swedish, French
Stackoverflow
3,502reputation
645kreached
36answers
45questions
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Github Skills (200)
metadata10
knitr10
chain10
markup-language10
rstan10
brms10
schema-org10
php10
multilevel10
literate-programming10
haskell10
bayesian-inference10
django10
r10
webapp10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rubenarslan/formr.org
Jun 2012 - Jan 2022
Chain simple surveys into longer runs to build complex studies. Use R to generate pretty feedback and complex designs.
Contributions:19 releases, 2092 commits, 32 PRs in 9 years 8 months
formrjavascriptphpdesignsknitr
rubenarslan/codebook
Nov 2017 - Nov 2022
Cook rmarkdown codebooks from metadata on R data frames
Contributions:11 releases, 236 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 1 month
codebookjson-ldr-packageformrcook
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