Benjamin Maier
Principal Data Scientist
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Maier is a Principal Data Scientist based in Berlin who translates theoretical physics and complex-systems insight into production-ready statistical software and simulation platforms. With a PhD in theoretical physics and over a decade of interdisciplinary research, he has built large-scale analytics and custom algorithms—from shortest-path methods on 5M-node networks to probabilistic modeling tools—and advised the German government on COVID-19 mitigation. He blends hands-on full‑stack development, open-source contributions to the PyMC ecosystem, and AI consulting to deploy model-informed decision support across public sector and industry clients. Notably, his work spans synthetic consumer and agentic data systems, fractal-based urban modeling, and high-performance infectious-disease simulations, demonstrating an unusual mix of mathematical rigor and product-minded engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Utrecht UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Physik, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
522reputation
60kreached
6answers
5questions
Github Skills (185)
synthesizer10
network-visualization10
python10
stochastic10
gtk10
pybind1110
scientific-computing10
ssreflect10
qt10
tuples10
interval-arithmetic10
data-visualization10
csv10
music10
scipy10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/binpacking-feedstock
Jul 2020 - Jan 2025
A conda-smithy repository for binpacking.
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 years 7 months
binpackingcondasmithy
benmaier/effective-distance
Jan 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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