Dr. Till Dettmering

In 2012 I spent some time in Rob Coppes’ lab at the University Medical Center Groningen, where a plain poster on the wall caught my eye: six numbered questions under the title “Van Zant’s Six Cardinal Questions of Scientific Investigation.”

In my consulting work I keep explaining the FAIR principles—data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable—and I keep noticing the same thing: slides don’t hurt.

I wanted to keep an eye on a handful of web pages — a supplier’s pricing page, a regulatory portal, a competitor’s changelog — without either checking them by hand or drowning in alerts every time a footer date or a cookie banner changed.

For about a decade I’ve kept a quiet mental list of small productivity tools I wished existed: a Gantt chart tool that didn’t force me to register an account before drawing a single bar, a checklist app I could share with someone without making them regis…

I wanted a lightweight place to jot down what I did each day — not a full journaling app, not a notes tool, just a chronological log I control.

I prefer writing on my iPad with a specific grid or ruling, but finding exactly the right paper is tedious.

Most Gantt chart tools either demand an account before you can do anything or are buried inside full project management platforms.

I needed a way to create checklists from a template — think a recurring process like onboarding or a release — and share them with people who shouldn’t have to register anywhere.

Wenn ein Labor digitalisiert werden soll, läuft es meistens nach demselben Muster ab: Irgendjemand stellt fest, dass die Papierprotokolle oder das über Jahre gewachsene Excel-Chaos so nicht mehr tragbar sind, also wird ein Lastenheft geschrieben, eine Ber…

As part of my education as a systemic consultant for organizational development and change management, I wrote a project thesis based on a real-world consulting engagement at a mid-sized medical device company.

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“Ich kapier’ nicht, was du machst!”

Artificial Intelligence (AI) based systems are prominently reshaping our society: technologies such as ChatGPT have wide implications on our daily lives.

„Was will ich denn mal werden?"

Sitting in a hotel room after a long consulting day looking for ways to calm down?

I usually don’t plan my grocery shopping and I don’t keep in mind what to buy.

Scientific software is very often written by domain experts for domain experts.

A small data visualization project to correlate the absurdly high rents in Frankfurt with environmental and socioeconomic parameters.

Since 2014 I volunteer for Engineers without Borders (EWB) and train young engineers in microbiology and water sampling.

For the annual conference of the “Gesellschaft für biologische Strahlenforschung” in 2013, an abstract book needed to be designed and printed within a very short timeframe.

What happens after we irradiate the healthy tissue surrounding a lung tumor with carbon ions?

Before I had my first smartphone, I wanted to have an overview of my day that I could take with me.

A WordPress site with a custom design to represent the GBS.

After irradiation, many cell types begin to increase the production of reactive oxygen species (oxygen radicals).

Darmspiegel (you’ll only get the pun if you’re german) was a student magazine founded by online journalism students in Darmstadt.

The content of the booklet was mainly aggregated from earlier versions.

When I started studying biology in 2004, social media services such as facebook and studiVZ were non-existent.

Together with a small team, I was responsible for producing the yearbook of the class of 2004 at Gymnasium Michelstadt.