Jan Niederau
Researcher at Fraunhofer IEG
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Niederau is a researcher and software-savvy geoscientist with a decade of experience applying computational methods to geothermal energy and subsurface modeling. Currently at Fraunhofer IEG after postdoctoral work at ETH Zürich and a PhD-focused research stint at RWTH Aachen, he blends domain expertise in geothermal systems with hands-on software development and project management. His open-source contributions to GemPy demonstrate practical back-end engineering that enhances 3D structural geological modeling and interoperability (including export to MOOSE), revealing a knack for bridging research models and reusable tools. Based in Cologne, he brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach to turning complex geological data into actionable models and software.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Geology/Earth Science, General, Master of Science - MS, Geology/Earth Science, General at RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (3)
python10
develop9
documentation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gempy-project/gempy
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
GemPy is an open-source, Python-based 3-D structural geological modeling software, which allows the implicit (i.e. automatic) creation of complex geological models from interface and orientation data. It also offers support for stochastic modeling to address parameter and model uncertainties.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 15 reviews, 87 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the GemPy project by modifying existing code and updating documentation. The commits show the user refactoring code, changing existing functions, and adding new arguments to plotting functions, likely to expand the capabilities of the modeling software. The user also added a function to export geological models to MOOSE input and implemented new features related to the model's topology.
3dpythonuqbayesianinterpolation
Japhiolite/bqcs
Mar 2019 - May 2021
Some functions to click interface points from geological cross sections (cs), based on bqplot. Thus bqcs.
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 2 months
bqplot
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