Dirk-philip Van Herwaarden
Software Developer at Ansys
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDirk-philip Van Herwaarden is a software developer with 10 years of experience who blends rigorous academic training in geophysics (PhD, ETH Zürich) and aerospace engineering with hands-on software engineering across research and industry. He has moved fluidly between roles—postdoc and senior scientist positions at ETH Zürich, applied engineering at Spacetek, and now software development at Ansys—bringing strengths in numerical modeling, non-linear optimization, and scientific software. Dirk-philip excels at translating complex, physics-driven problems into reliable software solutions and enjoys collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver practical technical outcomes. His background in finance-adjacent problem solving and science communication means he often frames technical choices in terms of impact and clarity, not just correctness.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Delft University of TechnologyMinor Entrepreneurship in The Modern Economy, Minor Entrepreneurship in The Modern Economy at Erasmus University RotterdamVWO, Science & Engineering, VWO, Science & Engineering at Instituut VrijbergenMaster of Science - MS, IDEA League: Applied Geophysics, Master of Science - MS, IDEA League: Applied Geophysics at TU Delft, ETH Zurich and RTWH AachenDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geophysics at ETH ZürichVWO, VWO at Rijnlands Lyceum Wassenaar
Github Skills (26)
twitter10
inversion10
waveform10
crowdsourcing9
notebook9
geodesy9
python-lib9
jupyter-notebook9
geophysics9
structure-from-motion9
seismology8
jupyter8
python-codes7
python-interface7
python7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dirkphilip/LASIF_2.0
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
An End-to-end Workflow for Adjoint Full Seismic Waveform Inversions, specifically designed for SALVUS. For a tutorial, please download the Jupyter notebook at https://github.com/solvithrastar/LASIF_tutorials
Contributions:130 commits, 110 PRs, 437 pushes in 4 years 7 months
pythonend-to-endjupyter-notebooknotebookjupyter
eth-csem/csemlib
Feb 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:10 PRs, 138 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 3 months
pythonearthinterpolationpython-codeshandle
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