Charlotte Soneson: embracing the command line

Spotlight on FMIers showcases the lives, work and passions of the institute's researchers and support staff. Charlotte Soneson, a member of the FMI Computational Biology Platform, told us about her career path in a field that is dominated by men and discussed efforts to build a diverse and collaborative community of software developers and data scientists. Eighteen years ago, Charlotte Soneson got into computational biology almost by chance. Today, she's an accomplished computational biologist who provides support to FMI researchers and is involved in an international project to develop open-source software for the analysis of biological data. Soneson is also the winner of this year's Ruth Chiquet Prize , an internal FMI award for the most innovative new method or tool. Soneson was recognized together with Jan Seebacher, head of the FMI Proteomics Platform , for the development of "einprot" — an open-source software package for the statistical analysis of quantitative proteomics data. How does it feel to be the winner of the Ruth Chiquet Prize?.