Jógvan Olsen
Senior Quantum Software Engineer at Kvantify
Denmark
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Top SchoolJógvan Olsen is a Senior Quantum Software Engineer with 12 years of interdisciplinary experience bridging theoretical chemistry and quantum computing, currently building quantum software at Kvantify after a faculty career at DTU. He holds a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and has led research-driven software projects across European universities, translating complex multiscale and spectroscopic models into production-ready code. As an associate/assistant professor and postdoc he combined algorithm development, high-performance computing, and domain science—skills he now applies to practical quantum applications and tooling. He is active on GitLab, preferring to host most projects there, which underscores a strong commitment to open collaboration and reproducible research. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves comfortably between deep theory and pragmatic engineering, often surfacing elegant computational shortcuts that are not obvious from the math alone.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, PhD Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern DenmarkCand.scient. (M.Sc.) Theoretical Chemistry, Cand.scient. (M.Sc.) Theoretical Chemistry at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
faroese, Danish, English
Github Skills (32)
open-access9
journal9
linux9
windows9
macos8
scientific-computing8
python8
hpc8
fortran-package-manager7
academia7
dft7
exchange-correlation-functionals7
theory7
build-tools7
creative-commons7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
foeroyingur/spack
Jul 2020 - Jan 2026
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 6 months
compilersplatformspackage-managerdarwinconfigurations
foeroyingur/forking-workflow-exercise
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
forkingcollaborativeworkflow
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