Saskia Hiltemann
DataPLANT Data Steward
Netherlands
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Saskia Hiltemann is a DataPLANT Data Steward and postdoctoral researcher with 11 years of experience blending bioinformatics, software development, and data stewardship across academic and research institutions. She holds a PhD in Bioinformatics and an MS in Computer Science, and has built and maintained Galaxy tools and training materials used widely by the bioinformatics community. Her work spans developing reproducible pipelines, managing data manager scripts and tests, and improving learner-facing resources—she has contributed usability enhancements like mermaid visuals and copy functionality to the prominent Galaxy training-material repository. At Erasmus MC she combined cancer and microbiome research with tool development and community training, co-founding Galaxy training frameworks and the Gallantries project. Known for meticulous attention to data quality and accessibility, she bridges deep computational skills with practical teaching and stewardship. Based in the Netherlands, she brings an uncommon mix of hands-on backend engineering and educational design to scientific software ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Leiden UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Bioinformatics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dutch, English, German, French
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
galaxyproject/training-material
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
A collection of Galaxy-related training material
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 releases, 1367 reviews, 2990 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Saskia's commits primarily focused on updating and refining links within the training materials repository, specifically targeting the "Hall of Fame" and various tutorial pages. Their work involved correcting broken links, ensuring accessibility through image descriptions, and enhancing the overall readability of the training resources. The user also incorporated tools like mermaid to represent figures for enhanced visualization and added code to implement copy functionality to aid the learners. Their contributions improved the user experience.
chip-seqmetagenomicsrnaseqtraining-materialusegalaxy
galaxyproject/tools-iuc
Jun 2016 - Sep 2022
Tool Shed repositories maintained by the Intergalactic Utilities Commission
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 497 commits, 83 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Saskia's commits primarily involve modifications to data management scripts and tool configurations within the Galaxy tools framework. They focused on updating data manager scripts for database downloads, including correcting column values. Contributions also include adapting a tool for the masigpro package and integrating it into the Galaxy toolshed. The user has also implemented tests and updated test data for various QIIME tools.
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