Jobst Heitzig
Senior Scientist at PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Summary
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SeniorJobst Heitzig is a senior scientist based in Potsdam with nine years of experience at the intersection of climate impact research and computational science. He has been a long-standing researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and recently took on a Zuse Fellowship at Zuse Institute Berlin, blending domain expertise with advanced computational methods. His work focuses on translating complex climate-system insights into rigorous, policy-relevant analysis and models. Colleagues know him for a pragmatic, research-driven approach and a preference for direct communication—he requests email contact rather than LinkedIn messages. Though not an active GitHub profiler, his dual roles suggest deep familiarity with scientific software, reproducible research, and interdisciplinary collaboration. He brings a rare mix of academic rigor and hands-on implementation to climate modeling and impact assessment.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (74)
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svg10
geodesy10
earth-science10
couchdb10
ionic10
decision-making10
angular10
voting10
typescript10
earth-engine10
geoscience10
consensus10
atmosphere10
google-earth-engine10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pik-gane/satisfia
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024
Satisficing-based Intelligent Agents
Contributions:5 releases, 18 reviews, 7 PRs in 1 year 8 months
pik-gane/vodle
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
We develop an interactive, consensus-oriented group decision app
Contributions:2 releases, 39 reviews, 973 commits in 4 years
decision-makingbudgetingdelegationconsensussvg
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