Olav Vahtras
Professor at KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolOlav Vahtras is a Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at KTH whose work bridges quantum-mechanical algorithms and practical software for molecular properties. He coauthored the VeloxChem quantum chemistry package (Python/C++) and is an active contributor to the scientific Python ecosystem as co-editor of the SciPy Lecture Notes, improving documentation and reproducibility in the widely used scipy-lectures. He teaches master- and PhD-level Python and computational courses and is a Software/Data Carpentry instructor, bringing a developer-first approach to scientific code. Beyond research and teaching he serves on KTH’s trade-union board and represents Sveriges Ingenjörer at Saco-S, demonstrating a sustained commitment to academic community and policy as well as code.
13 years of coding experience
PhD, Quantrum Chemistry, PhD, Quantrum Chemistry at Uppsala University
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Github contributions (5)
scipy-lectures/scientific-python-lectures
Aug 2015 - Sep 2019
Tutorial material on the scientific Python ecosystem
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer / Documentation SpecialistContributions:38 commits, 30 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Olav primarily focused on improving the documentation and examples within the scientific Python lecture series. Their commits involved fixing formatting issues, adding or modifying doctest directives, and updating author lists. These changes aimed to improve the clarity, accuracy, and build processes of the documentation, ensuring the examples function correctly and are easily reproducible. The user also addressed build errors, enhancing the overall quality and usability of the educational materials.
pythonecosystemscientific
vahtras/f2py
Apr 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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