Jacco De Vries
Associate Professor Of Physics
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJacco De Vries is an experimental particle physicist and Associate Professor with 11 years of experience combining large-scale LHC data analysis, statistical modelling and hands-on experimental hardware work. He leads the Maastricht LHCb group and has convened the Very Rare Decays analysis working group, blending deep expertise in flavour physics with practical detector operations and shift leadership at CERN. His work spans pattern-recognition and machine learning for event reconstruction, with early exploration of quantum computing approaches for HEP problems. An experienced educator, he coordinates and teaches quantum mechanics, particle physics and data analysis courses, mentoring students from undergraduate to doctoral levels. Based in the Randstad, he brings a rare mix of rigorous statistical analysis, detector-level know-how and curiosity-driven tooling development that informs both research and teaching.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
VWO (preparatory scientific education) Nature, Technology and Health (NT & NG), VWO (preparatory scientific education) Nature, Technology and Health (NT & NG) at RSG PantarijnDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Experimental Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Experimental Particle Physics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Bachelor of Science - B.Sc. Physics & Astronomy, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc. Physics & Astronomy at Universiteit UtrechtMaster of Science - M.Sc. Particle- & Astroparticle Physics, Master of Science - M.Sc. Particle- & Astroparticle Physics at Universiteit van Amsterdam
Dutch, English, French, German
Github Skills (6)
msp9
telescope3
machine-learning3
astronomy2
astrophotography2
raspberry-pi2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jackfrost373/PhysicsDataAnalysis
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Playground for various awesome ML tutorials
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
machine-learning
jackfrost373/jupyter-root
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 release, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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