Benito Van Der Zander
Postdoctoral Researcher at Universität zu Lübeck
Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Top SchoolBenito Van Der Zander is a Postdoctoral Researcher in computer science based in Lübeck with 18 years of software and research experience spanning causality, security, and language/runtime implementation. He combines rigorous academic training (Dr. rer. nat., MS, BS) and university teaching with long-standing open-source leadership—contributing backend fixes and new features to widely used projects like TeXstudio and maintaining multi-platform applications with over a million downloads. His work ranges from implementing XQuery/JSONiq interpreters and arbitrary-precision arithmetic to building IDEs, apps for library OPACs, and pragmatic tooling for researchers. Comfortable switching between deep theory (cryptology, complexity) and hands-on engineering, he brings reproducible research sensibilities to production-grade software. An interesting detail: alongside research, he has repeatedly shipped cross-platform consumer and developer tools that required end-to-end ownership from parser design to release management.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat) Computer Science, Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat) Computer Science at Universität zu LübeckMaster of Science (MS) Informatics, Master of Science (MS) Informatics at RWTH Aachen UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Informatics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Informatics at University of Düsseldorf
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
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unix9
qt9
c-language9
cross-platform9
webscraping9
linux9
bash9
cprogramming-language9
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
texstudio-org/texstudio
Jan 2009 - Jan 2023
TeXstudio is a fully featured LaTeX editor. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 1795 commits, 4 PRs in 14 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Benito contributed to the TeXstudio project by fixing bugs in the code, improving the user interface, and adding new features. The commits include fixing typos in log files, addressing issues related to combobox focusing, and handling drag and drop for file imports. The user also worked on improving the handling of text and math environments, adding features like a text to LaTeX converter, and improving the functionality of the code snippets.
latex-editorgoalidelatextexstudio
benibela/firefox-stuff
Jan 2012 - Apr 2018
Contributions:145 commits, 2 pushes in 6 years 3 months
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