Jacob Lotz
Consultant Scientific Software at 24Beta
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Lotz is a consultant in scientific software and a recent PhD graduate from TU Delft’s Shiphydromechanics section, combining naval architecture expertise with hands-on computational mechanics. He contributes to high-performance open-source finite element software (notably mfem), with commits focused on TMOP mesh-quality metrics and NURBS mesh functionality—showing deep numerical-methods and mesh-generation know-how. Based in The Hague, he transitioned from a multi-year academic research trajectory into industry consulting at 24Beta, bringing applied experience from MARIN and a Master in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. His minor in project management and past business-development roles give him an uncommon blend of technical rigor and commercial awareness for an early-career engineer.
3 years of coding experience
TU Delft
Dutch, English
Github Skills (10)
el10
c-language10
f10
computational-science10
c-programming-language10
nurbs10
scientific-computing9
cluster-computing9
parallel-computing6
amr3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mfem/mfem
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Lightweight, general, scalable C++ library for finite element methods
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 reviews, 21 commits, 13 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Jacob's commits primarily involve modifications within the `fem/tmop.cpp` and `mesh/nurbs.cpp` files, indicating a focus on finite element method (FEM) related code. The code changes include modifications to TMOP (Target-matrix optimization paradigm) mesh quality metrics and NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) functionality. The work likely involves improvements and adjustments to existing methods.
c-plus-plusfinitefemamrc-library
JacobLotz/mfem-fork
Apr 2023 - Sep 2023
FORKED: Lightweight, general, scalable C++ library for finite element methods
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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