Steffen Neumann
Head Of Bioinformatics And Mass Spectrometry
Greater Leipzig Area Germany
Summary
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RockstarSteffen Neumann is Head of Bioinformatics and Mass Spectrometry at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry with 18 years of experience building tools and databases for metabolomics and computational mass spectrometry. He leads a research group that develops algorithms for metabolite profiling and tackles the field’s biggest challenge: identifying unknowns in mass spectrometry data. His work blends software engineering, algorithm design, and domain expertise in plant biochemistry, resulting in widely cited publications and publicly available resources. Steffen’s career traces from research assistant and postdoc roles to long-term leadership in bioinformatics infrastructure, evidencing deep institutional knowledge and project continuity. He combines academic rigor with practical tool-building that accelerates discovery in metabolomics. Based in the Greater Leipzig Area, he is known for turning complex analytical bottlenecks into usable software and databases.
18 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
ipb-halle/MetFragTraining
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
Training material for MetFrag usage
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
training-materialtraining
MetClassNet/MetClassNetR
May 2020 - Nov 2022
R package wrapping many different things for MetClassNet
Contributions:1 review, 35 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 6 months
r-packagetraitsbootstrappingwrapping
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