resume.json

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    "name": "Stefan Popp",
    "label": "Scientist",
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    "email": "popp@arizona.edu",
    "phone": "+49 174 580 9939",
    "url": "https://StefanMPopp.github.io/",
    "summary": "A biologist-trained data scientist",
    "location": {
      "address": "Sonnenstrasse 3",
      "postalCode": "97237",
      "city": "Altertheim",
      "countryCode": "DE",
      "region": "Bavaria"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "Twitter",
        "username": "AlbertEinstein",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/AlbertEinstein"
      }
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  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona",
      "position": "Research Scientist",
      "url": "https://eeb.arizona.edu",
      "startDate": "2017-08-18",
      "endDate": "2023-08-19",
      "summary": "Thesis on ant search strategies for targets of unkown location.",
      "highlights": ["Time series analysis"]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "institution": "University of Arizona",
      "location": "Tucson, AZ",
      "url": "https://eeb.arizona.edu",
      "area": "Ecology & Evolutionary Biology",
      "studyType": "PhD",
      "startDate": "2017-08-18",
      "endDate": "2023-08-19",
      "score": "3.7",
      "courses": ["Ant search strategies for targets of unkown location"]
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of Wurzburg",
      "location": "Wurzburg, Germany",
      "url": "https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/",
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      "startDate": "2015-09-01",
      "endDate": "2017-07-01",
      "score": "1.3",
      "courses": ["Ant social organization and communication"]
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of Wurzburg",
      "location": "Wurzburg, Germany",
      "url": "https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/",
      "area": "Software Development",
      "studyType": "BSc",
      "startDate": "2011-09-01",
      "endDate": "2015-07-01",
      "score": "2.4",
      "courses": ["Ant communication"]
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "Galileo Circle Fellowship",
      "date": "2022-06-01",
      "awarder": "Galileo Circle",
      "url": "https://science.arizona.edu/galileo-circle",
      "summary": "The Galileo Circle awards scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate exceptional potential in the physical, mathematical, environmental, cognitive, or life sciences. $1000.'"
    },
    {
      "title": "Galileo Circle Fellowship",
      "date": "2021-06-01",
      "awarder": "Galileo Circle",
      "url": "https://science.arizona.edu/galileo-circle",
      "summary": "The Galileo Circle awards scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate exceptional potential in the physical, mathematical, environmental, cognitive, or life sciences. $1000.'"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "name": "No evidence for tactile communication of direction in foraging Lasius ants",
      "publisher": "Insectes Sociaux",
      "releaseDate": "2018-09-30",
      "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00040-017-0583-6",
      "summary": "A returning ant doesn't tell the outgoing one whether to turn left or right at a bifurcation"
    },
    {
      "name": "Alignment with neighbors enables escape from dead ends in flocking models",
      "publisher": "J Royal Soc Interf",
      "releaseDate": "2022-03-18",
      "url": "https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0356",
      "summary": "Agents swarming according to a classical model can escape a dead-end obstacle in the way to their goal without specialized behaviors if they are aligned enough."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ants combine systematic meandering and correlated random walks when searching for unknown resources",
      "publisher": "iScience",
      "releaseDate": "2023-01-27",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105916",
      "summary": "Ants turn somewhat regularly left & right while maintaining some stochasticity. This helps them cover an area efficiently and probably robustly."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ant colonies explore novel environments with more slower, curvier walks, particularly near the nest",
      "publisher": "Insectes Sociaux",
      "releaseDate": "2023-10-27",
      "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00040-023-00938-z",
      "summary": "On the 1st day in a new environment, there are additional ant trips done near the nest (<1m) compared to the 2nd and 3rd days."
    },
    {
      "name": "Searching ants walk slower and less straight on chemical footprints, but indirect effects are large",
      "publisher": "Insectes Sociaux",
      "releaseDate": "In print",
      "url": "https://example.com",
      "summary": "Ants show large variation of where and how they explore. They are also very sensitive to chemical cues on the surface. These 2 things are probably more important than any pheromone communication for coordination."
    }
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        "Visualization",
        "Hypothesis testing",
        "Statistical models"
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        "MATLAB",
        "Python",
        "R",
        "SQL",
        "bash",
        "Excel"
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      "name": "Other",
      "level": "Master",
      "icon": "fa-solid fa-video",
      "keywords": [
        "Video Editing (Premiere Pro)",
        "ffmpeg",
        "Behavioral experiment",
        "Object tracking"
      ]
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      "language": "German",
      "fluency": "Native speaker",
      "icon": "fa-solid beer-mug"
    },
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Fluent",
      "icon": "fa-solid burger-cheese"
    },
    {
      "language": "French",
      "fluency": "Beginner/Intermediate",
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    {
      "language": "Spanish",
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        "Comprehensible Input",
        "Linguistics"
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    {
      "name": "Bikepacking",
      "icon": "fa-solid fa-bike",
      "keywords": [
        "2015: Wurzburg-Brombachsee-Wurzburg, 3d",
        "2015: Wurzburg-Avignon, 14d",
        "2023: Avignon-Toulouse, 5d"
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  "references": [
    {
      "name": "Professor Anna Dornhaus",
      "icon": "fa-solid fa-bee",
      "reference": "PhD Advisor"
    },
    {
      "name": "Professor Helen McCreery",
      "icon": "fa-solid fa-fish",
      "reference": "Collaborator on the swarm obstacle project"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "ReSQL",
      "summary": "Performing analysis on the resampling dataset with SQL and visualizing results in Power BI",
      "highlights": ["SQL", "Power BI"],
      "startDate": "2024-03-25",
      "endDate": "2024-04-05",
      "url": "https://github.io/StefanMPopp/resql"
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      "organization": "Lightning In a Bottle",
      "position": "Green Team",
      "url": "https://libfestival.com",
      "startDate": "2022-05-01",
      "endDate": "2023-05-01",
      "summary": "Picked up and managed trash at a music festival.",
      "highlights": ["Awarded 'Climate Hero' award by Greenpeace for my efforts organizing the march.", "Men of the year 2014 by Time magazine"]
    }
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