My name is Konrad Förstner. I consider myself as an idealist with a scientific background (a PhD in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology) and a strong association to the open source/data/content community. I am located in Germany.

I …

• … am a shared postdoc in the groups of Jörg Vogel and Cynthia Sharma at the Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB) in Würzburg. Further information about previous and further activities can be found at Xing and LinkedIn.
• … have a blog called the dao of flow where I write about about science, technology, society and further topics.
• … document some of my little hacks and configuration tips on another blog named Konrad’s Kode & Konfigs.
• … write in a German blog called Birnen Bonsai about society and politics.
• … publish open source code on GitHub (there are also some contributions on gitorious and bitbucket)
• … twitter
• … and post on identi.ca
• … use FriendFeed as an aggregator but mainly for talking to the bio crowed
• … have slides on SlideShare and on Nature Precedings
• … collect scientific publications at CiteULike and Mendeley
• … share some selected photos on Flickr
• … collect links at ZooTool