Stephan is a part-time postdoctoral research engineer at Leiden University and at the SYNC lab at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he focuses on building reproducible analysis pipelines and data management processes for neuroimaging data. He is passionate about brains, accessible education, and making scientific practice more transparent and inclusive. For the majority of his time, Stephan works as a Research Data and Software Engineer at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, focusing on open source software solutions for neuroinformatics and decentralized research data management.