Leon Thurner
Gründer & Geschäftsführer at retoflow GmbH
Kassel, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolLeon Thurner is a founder and CEO with nine years of technical and research experience at the intersection of power systems engineering and software development. Holding a PhD in electrical engineering, he led tool development for network planning at Fraunhofer IEE and built research software at Universität Kassel before founding retoflow GmbH. He contributes to the popular pandapower open-source project, improving power flow, switch and transformer modeling and bringing academic rigor to practical grid-analysis code. Leon combines deep domain expertise in regenerative energies with hands-on backend engineering, making him equally comfortable in research, product leadership, and performance-focused code. Based in Kassel, he stands out for translating complex power-system models into maintainable software used by both researchers and practitioners.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsingenieur (Elektrotechnik), Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsingenieur (Elektrotechnik) at Technische Universität KaiserslauternDoktor (Ph.D.), Elektrotechnik, Doktor (Ph.D.), Elektrotechnik at Universität Kassel
Github Skills (2)
pandas10
python10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
e2nIEE/pandapower
Oct 2016 - Jun 2022
Convenient Power System Modelling and Analysis based on PYPOWER and pandas
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 10 reviews, 1533 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Leon made several commits related to a power flow analysis and modeling tool built upon PYPOWER and pandas, as indicated by the repository's description. Their contributions focused on modifying existing code for specific calculations, such as handling different units and diagnosing issues. They also introduced changes to the implementation of a switch and transformer model for improving performance and analysis capabilities.
pythonanalysisoptimizationsystem-modellingstate-estimation
e2nIEE/pandapower-paper
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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