Francesco Nattino
Research Software Engineer at Netherlands eScience Center
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFrancesco Nattino is a research software engineer with eight years of experience bridging theoretical and computational chemistry with applied software development. Based in Leiden, he transitioned from a PhD and multiple postdoctoral appointments in materials and theoretical chemistry to developing reproducible research software at the Netherlands eScience Center. He combines deep domain expertise in simulation and modeling with strong programming and problem-solving skills, recently extending his focus to remote sensing and geospatial data applications. Francesco is experienced in interdisciplinary, collaborative research environments and holds a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowship background, reflecting success in competitive international research funding and projects. He brings a pragmatic approach to turning complex scientific problems into maintainable, production-ready code and tooling. An inquisitive polymath, he leverages physical chemistry intuition to inform data-driven solutions in earth observation and computational materials.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Theoretical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Theoretical Chemistry at Leiden University
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (146)
meteorology10
python10
stac10
earth-science10
oceanography10
geopandas10
raster10
vector10
morphology10
morphological-analysis10
atmosphere10
grib10
geospatial10
earth10
parameter-estimation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
eEcoLiDAR/Laserfarm
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Laserchicken Framework for Applications in Research in Macro-ecology
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 258 commits in 2 years 6 months
ecologymacro
phenology/cgc
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
A clustering tool for geospatial applications
Contributions:12 releases, 26 reviews, 319 commits in 1 year 9 months
clusteringpythongeospatialgis
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