Maarten is a freelance developer / consultant / data scientist working working mostly with Python, C++ and Javascript in the Jupyter ecosystem. His expertise ranges from fast numerical computation, API design, to 3d visualization. He has a Bachelor in ICT, a Master and PhD in Astronomy and likes to code and solve problems. His PhD research was on the field of galactic dynamics. He worked on the Gaia mission, combing astronomy and IT, to enable visualization and exploration of the large dataset this satellite will yield. Through the work on ipyvolume he has become one of the ipywidgets developers.

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