Martijn Boussé
Assistant Professor at Maastricht University
Genk, Limburg, Belgium
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Top SchoolMartijn Boussé is an assistant professor at Maastricht University with a decade of experience at the intersection of computing education, research, and curriculum innovation. He champions co-creation, treating students as equal partners in course (re)design, professionalization workshops, and research projects to make learning engaging and meaningful. In parallel he coordinates the Computing Sciences Education research theme and trains university teachers, reflecting a rare blend of pedagogical leadership and hands-on classroom practice. His academic trajectory—from PhD and postdoc at KU Leuven to visiting scholar stints in the US—underpins a research-informed approach to teaching and governance roles across faculty councils and educational boards. Outside the university he founded a tutoring service, demonstrating entrepreneurial application of his instructional expertise. He also contributes to open-source tooling, having improved CUDA compatibility in EasyBuild easyblocks, showing attention to practical software interoperability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Master at KU Leuven
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (6)
cuda10
scite10
python10
scilab10
linux9
hpc9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Collection of easyblocks that implement support for building and installing software with EasyBuild.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Martijn primarily focused on making the CUDA easyblock compatible with different CUDA SDK versions. Their contributions involved modifying the `cuda.py` file to include compatibility checks for older versions (7.0 and versions < 7.5). They also fixed typos and adjusted the `maxhits` value to ensure proper behavior during software installations.
pythoninstallinglinuxscientific-softwarehpc
molden/easybuild-easyconfigs
Sep 2015 - Mar 2018
A collection of easyconfig files that describe which software to build using which build options with EasyBuild.
Contributions:13 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 6 months
describetoolkiteasyconfigoptionsmodular
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