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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...or, to put it another way, is your code open source if it doesn't have a license? I would say it is not, but I would love to see numbers comparing project size, number of contributors and similar correlated with projects lacking a license.

Great interview, I really enjoyed reading it and learning more about a work colleague and peer. It is great to work with so many people pushing open source, open science and reproducibility forward! I think Luis works on open source outside of 9 to 5, and honestly wonder where he finds the time to fit so much in!