Ivo Vellekoop
Professor at University of Twente
Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIvo Vellekoop is a professor and freelance scientific programmer with 11 years of experience translating advanced optics and physics problems into high-performance software and experiments. Based at the University of Twente’s Biomedical Photonic Imaging group, he combines academic leadership with hands-on development in wavefront shaping, microscopy and ultra-fast Maxwell solvers. His career spans pioneering experimental work — including the world’s first demonstration of focusing light through opaque objects — and building distributed instrument control and parallel data-processing frameworks. As a founder of a technical consultancy, he has applied his optics and scattering expertise to commercial and mobile projects, making him equally comfortable in lab, codebase, or client-facing roles. Colleagues rely on him for mathematically rigorous optimizations that bridge theory, simulation and deployable software.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Phd, Physics, Phd, Physics at University of TwenteMSc, Electrical Engineering, MSc, Electrical Engineering at Universiteit Twente
Github Skills (3)
cpp5
arxiv2
python2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IvoVellekoop/anysim
Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:143 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 10 months
IvoVellekoop/openwfs
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Python code for wavefront shaping
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 6 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.