Wolmar Åkerström
Data Steward For Life Science Research
Uppsala, Sweden
Summary
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SeniorWolmar Åkerström is a data management specialist with 13 years of experience, currently serving as Data Steward for Life Science Research at NBIS and contributing to the EOSC Association’s Health Data Task Force. He blends project management, digitization, academic publishing and service design to help national research infrastructures and research platforms improve data practices and interoperability. Comfortable working across international collaborations, Wolmar focuses on practical automation and systems development while supporting researchers and multidisciplinary teams. His academic background in computational science, business development and communications underpins a pragmatic approach to stewardship and a continual appetite for learning new tools and methods. An often unseen strength is his ability to translate institutional goals into usable data services that foster both personal growth and team capability.
13 years of coding experience
English, Swedish, Japanese
Github Skills (84)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NBISweden/module-data-publication-dm-practices
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
NBISweden/module-metadata-dm-practices
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Metadata module for Data Management course (carpentries style)
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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