Sigurður Smárason
Associate Director
Schifferstadt, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Top SchoolSigurður Smárason is an interdisciplinary leader who marries a PhD in analytical chemistry with 11 years of experience delivering digitalization and data-driven solutions across R&D and lab environments. Currently Associate Director at FrontWell Solutions after leading LIMS integration and R&D app development at BASF, he combines hands-on backend/frontend/ETL work with pragmatic solution architecture and project leadership. He has built large-scale metabolomics platforms, run population-scale studies, and overseen multi-million euro lab infrastructure projects—skills that let him translate scientific requirements into production-ready software and processes. A former academic and patent-holding industry scientist, he excels at motivating cross-functional teams to take ownership and deliver measurable outcomes. Based in Germany, he’s equally at home in code, lab benches, and stakeholder rooms, and is known for pioneering practical sampling workflows like Mitra® microsampling in untargeted metabolomics.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Chemistry, BSc Chemistry at Háskóli ÍslandsPh.D. Analytical Chemistry, Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry at Tufts UniversityMenntaskólinn á Akureyri
English, icleandic, Danish, German
Github Skills (103)
api-client10
bioconductor10
overleaf10
mass-spectrometry10
latex10
resume10
job-application10
xelatex10
google-photos-api10
pdf10
peak-detection10
tex10
editor9
r9
rest9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SiggiSmara/pymzML
Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
pymzML - an interface between Python and mzML Mass spectrometry Files
Contributions:4 commits, 12 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 11 months
pythonspectrometrymass-spectrometrymzmlmass
SiggiSmara/ShinyFIAMSSS
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:74 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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