Educated in Oxford, Paris and Tübingen, Matthias Zach has worked as a researcher, lecturer and science manager in Britain, France and Germany. As a member of the Karriereberatung für Akademiker*innen (www.kabeak.de), he counsels researchers and scientists on all relevant aspects of their careers.
Dr Barbara Beege is a trainer in communication and university didactics and holds a doctorate in psychology and education. She has many years of experience working as a trainer, coach and coordinator in the PROFiL personnel qualification programme at LMU Munich and the Munich further education institute, Sprachraum. Her areas of expertise include the didactic and methodological aspects of designing learning environments, the use of activation methods, rhetoric and presentation, and dealing with challenging speaking situations.
Senior Researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, Professor at University of Agder, Norway, and owner of the consultancy Academic Supervision. Gitte Wichmann-Hansen is an established and publishing researcher within the field of supervision, and she has 20+ years of experience with running high quality professional training of research supervisors as well as candidates at all career stages across European Universities.
Senior Researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark, Professor at University of Agder, Norway, and owner of the consultancy Academic Supervision. Gitte Wichmann-Hansen is an established and publishing researcher within the field of supervision, and she has 20+ years of experience with running high quality professional training of research
supervisors as well as candidates at all career stages across European Universities.
Dr Maurice Maurer graduated in 2020 from the Technical University of Munich with a Ph.D. in computational physics. In his scientific work – both carried out at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics – he developed a high performance computing (HPC) code to simulate plasma microturbulence in complex geometries. The dissertation is called GENE-3D – a global gyrokinetic turbulence code for stellarators and perturbed tokamaks.
During his masters project he already developed a parallelized code running on some of the fastest supercomputers in germany. For both the masters project and the Ph.D. project he employed Python for the postprocessing of the large data sets generated by the simulations.
Also, he is doing Python development consulting work for for various companies in regards to code review and performance optimization.
The knowledge and experience from these projects in addition to more than 20 years of programming experience go into the Python programming courses.
Daniel Schad is professor for Quantitative Methods at the HMU Health and Medical University in Potsdam. Before, he was assistant professor for Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at University of Tilburg (the Netherlands) and held research positions at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and at the University of Potsdam, where he also got his PhD in cognitive and mathematical psychology.
Mark Buchanan is a physicist and science writer based in Europe. A former editor with the international science journal Nature and also New Scientist, he is the author of three books and numerous articles exploring the ideas of modern physics. He writes occasionally for the New York Times, and has a monthly column in Nature Physics.
Justin Mullins is a consultant editor at New Scientist where he has covered topics ranging from the Chernobyl accident to the emergence of quantum computing. He was New Scientist’s San Francisco bureau chief during the dotcom boom and later its Boston Editor. He is a former teaching fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.