Rukeia El-Athman works as a research assistant in the eScience group. She studied Bioinformatics at the Freie Universität Berlin, followed by a PhD at the Institute for Theoretical Biology of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. In her thesis, she investigated the relationship between the mammalian circadian clock and cancer progression with a focus on potentially temporally regulated alternative splicing. She received her PhD in 2020 from Freie Universität Berlin. Having joined at BAM in February 2021, she currently works in the BAM Data Store project where she is responsible for introducing a central data management framework and electronical lab notebook for a diverse set of material science and engineering groups. She is interested in different aspects of data science, from statistical analysis to research data management. She also loves coding in R, especially for large-scale data analysis and visualization.