Edgar Steiger
Team Lead Data Science
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolEdgar Steiger is a Team Lead Data Science based in Berlin with 10 years of experience turning healthcare and genomics data into actionable public health insights. He moved from a strong academic foundation—a summa cum laude PhD in bioinformatics and a Diplom in mathematics and statistics—into applied machine learning and data communication at the Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche Versorgung. Edgar combines statistical rigor from his postdoctoral and PhD work with practical ML deployment across public healthcare research, and he leads teams that make complex analyses accessible to stakeholders. He also has a background in teaching and outreach, from university instruction to museum education, which informs his emphasis on clear data storytelling.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat., Bioinformatik, summa cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Bioinformatik, summa cum laude at Freie Universität BerlinDiplom-Mathematiker, Mathematik und Statistik, 1.8, Diplom-Mathematiker, Mathematik und Statistik, 1.8 at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinAbitur, Mathematik, 1.0, Abitur, Mathematik, 1.0 at Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Oberschule (Gymnasium), Berlin
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
data-science9
row9
ggplot9
des8
drei8
word2vec7
der7
scheme7
nlp6
oracle6
jupyter-notebook6
azure6
open-data6
topic-modeling6
anaconda6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zidatalab/zicolors
Sep 2020 - Dec 2025
ggplot theme for Zi plots, publication ready, nice color scheme
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
schemecolor-schemeggplotplots
zidatalab/covid19dashboard
May 2020 - Feb 2023
Overview of COVID-19 projections and results from the Zi Data Science Lab.
Contributions:3343 commits, 8 PRs, 3170 pushes in 2 years 9 months
data-science
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