Jan Janssen
Group Leader For Materials Informatics
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJan Janssen is a materials informatics group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials with 11 years of experience bridging computational materials science and software engineering. He combines a PhD-backed research background with hands-on contributions to prominent open-source projects—improving cross-platform installation for LAMMPS, maintaining interactive molecular viewers in nglview, and automating conda build pipelines—demonstrating both back-end and front-end fluency. His career includes postdoctoral fellowships at Los Alamos and invited residencies at premier institutes, reflecting a track record of collaborative, high-impact research. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often focuses on reproducible tooling and installability—an underappreciated but crucial aspect that boosts usability across platforms.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Paderborn UniversityIMPRS-SurMatAdvanced Degree (Master equivalent), Advanced Degree (Master equivalent) at University of Kaiserslautern
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Github Skills (27)
conda-forge10
javascript10
python10
molecular-simulation10
patch10
lammps10
bash10
dynamics10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
front-end-development10
jupyter-widget10
build-automation10
jupyter9
molecule9
graphic9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/linkedin-scraper-feedstock
Dec 2021 - Jan 2026
A conda-smithy repository for linkedin-scraper.
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 comments in 4 years 1 month
condasmithylinkedin-scraperlinkedinscraper
conda-forge/aiotube-feedstock
Oct 2021 - Jan 2025
A conda-smithy repository for aiotube.
Contributions:6 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 comments in 3 years 3 months
pythoncondasmithy
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