Teun Van Den Brand
PhD Student at The Netherlands Cancer Institute
Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTeun Van Den Brand is a computational biologist and PhD student at the Netherlands Cancer Institute with seven years of experience dissecting epigenetics, chromatin biology and molecular ontogenetic processes. He combines rigorous lab-rooted training in developmental biology with strong computational skills—evidenced by work on single-cell RNA-seq projects at EMBL-EBI and contributions to the widely used tidyverse/ggplot2 package where he improved type stability, bug fixes and introduced purrr-style lambda support for scales. Based in Nijmegen, he consults for Posit PBC, bridging open-source software engineering and biological research to make complex gene-regulatory phenomena more tractable and reproducible. Colleagues value his knack for refactoring messy code and clarifying documentation, a trait that mirrors his research goal of making molecular life processes easier to explain and model.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Industrial Design, Unfinished, Bachelor's Degree, Industrial Design, Unfinished at Eindhoven University of TechnologyHigh School, NT & NG, High School, NT & NG at Raayland CollegeMaster’s Student, Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, Master’s Student, Molecular Mechanisms of Disease at Radboud University Nijmegen
Dutch, English, French, German
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Github Skills (17)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tidyverse/ggplot2
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Bug Fixer
Back-end Developer & Bug FixerContributions:1 release, 416 reviews, 115 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Teun primarily contributed to the development of `ggplot2`, focusing on type stability improvements, bug fixes, and feature enhancements. Their work included refactoring code related to scale application and handling data transformations. Additionally, the user integrated the new purrr-style lambda notation into scale arguments. They have also provided documentation improvements to ensure the readability and usability of existing code.
visualisationgrammar-of-graphicsggplot2grammardata-visualisation
teunbrand/ggnomics
Apr 2019 - Aug 2021
A small project to add ggplot2 extensions
Contributions:2 releases, 195 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 4 months
small-projectggplot2rstatsextensionsvisualization
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