Software Publisher Profile
Alexander Griekspoor is an independent software developer with a scientific background located in Cambridge UK who writes innovative software for scientists. After a PhD in Cell Biology he switched fields and joined the text mining group at the EMBL European Bioinformatics institute as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. Alexander is perhaps most well-known as "Mek" from the duo "Mekentosj". Together with his friend Tom "Tosj" Groothuis he developed a number of scientific Mac applications, two of which won Apple Design Awards for best Best Student and Best scientific Mac OS X application, respectively. What started in his spare time has became his passion and has now also become his work. He aims to create new and innovative Mac OS X applications for scientists, of which his recently released new program Papers is a prime example. It recently won Alexander's third Apple Design Award.
Besides Mac specific desktop applications he also explores the creation of new scientific workflows in general. In pa
