Marcus D. Hanwell

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Marcus D. Hanwell
Rexford, NY

Marcus D. Hanwell | Marcus leads the Open Chemistry project, developing open source tools for chemistry, bioinformatics, and materials science research. He completed an experimental PhD in Physics at the University of Sheffield, a Google Summer of Code developing Avogadro and Kalzium, and a postdoctoral fellowship combining experimental and computational chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to Kitware in late 2009. He is now a Technical Leader in the Scientific Computing group at Kitware, a member of the Blue Obelisk, blogs, @mhanwell on Twitter and is active on Google+. He is passionate about open science, open source and making sense of increasingly large scientific data to understand the world around us.

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Echoing Luis a little, honoured to be selected for an award, and I am grateful to the Opensource.com team for all the work they put into building a strong community here. Things are getting very excited at the intersection of open source and open science, so I hope to bring more of that here in the coming months.

I think the new badge names and thresholds are very positive changes, we really appreciate all the work that goes into this community. I will try to stop slacking/being ill and get back to writing so that I can be an open source champion ;-)