Dr. Jens Wehner, eScience Research Software
Engineer
After graduating from TU Darmstadt/Germany in Material Science, Jens obtained a PhD in physics from the TU/e Eindhoven in the Netherlands working on quantum chemistry and multiscale models for exciton transport in organic materials. Since his Ph.D., Jens has been developing software for scientific applications.
Jens focuses on the implementation of numerical algorithms and for high-performance computing using C++. His fields of expertise are computational chemistry and materials science.
Sven van der Burg, MSc, eScience Research Software Engineer
Sven did a bachelor in Psychobiology and a master in Brain and Cognitive Science at the University of Amsterdam. After obtaining his degree he was a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam in the field of cellular and systems neuroscience. He specialized in the recording and analysis of activity patterns in networks of brain cells.
Subsequently, he started working as web developer at Goldmund, Wyldebeast and Wunderliebe where he mostly worked on the website of Vacansoleil. Finally, he worked at Company.info as a data scientist, where he worked on building machine learning applications using structured and unstructured company data.
He joined the eScience center in June 2020 and works mostly on the big data & health projects.