Stefan Washietl
Founder at Paperpile, LLC
Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Washietl is a founder and technically grounded entrepreneur based in Austria, leading research-driven citation tools as the creator of Paperpile and BibGuru. With a PhD in Genetics from Universität Wien and postdoctoral experience at MIT and EMBL-EBI, he brings deep academic domain expertise to building developer-friendly research software. He blends a scientist’s rigor with product-focused engineering, evidenced by his role as the “official Paperpile robot” syncing research libraries with GitHub. Over a decade-plus of building tools for scholars, he focuses on making complex citation and bibliographic workflows simple, reliable, and integrable into developers’ ecosystems.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Genetics, PhD, Genetics at Universität Wien
English, German
Github Skills (19)
r-package10
spatial-transcriptomics10
bioconductor10
transcriptomics9
spatial9
eda8
exploratory-data-analysis8
r8
hugo7
hugo-theme7
biogeography5
biodiversity5
ecology5
traits4
svd3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sjelms/journal_article
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:169 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
sahirbhatnagar/paperpile-to-notion
Jun 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:250 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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