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.
14 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
r
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
table-of-contents10
bayesian-data-analysis10
zenodo10
sweave10
metadata10
knitr10
commonmark10
literate-programming10
haskell10
bayesian-inference10
spss10
markdown10
javascript10
r10
dataframes10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rubenarslan/rmdpartials
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 49 commits, 25 pushes in 1 year 1 month
rubenarslan/formr
Jan 2014 - Aug 2021
The accompanying R package for the survey framework formr (see https://github.com/rubenarslan/formr.org and https://formr.org)
Contributions:7 releases, 192 commits, 2 PRs in 7 years 7 months
rr-packageconvenience-functionsformrsurvey-framework
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