Roel Baars
Lecturer In Chemistry & Life Sciences at Higgs Productions
Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRoel Baars is an experienced educator and scientist with 12 years of professional experience bridging chemistry, life sciences and educational media. As a lecturer at Hogeschool Inholland and co-founder of Higgs Productions, he blends hands-on laboratory teaching with the design and production of science-focused instructional videos that engage secondary and tertiary students. His academic background includes a PhD-focused research track in nanoparticle separation and Brownian dynamics simulations, and a cum laude BSc in Chemistry, giving him a strong research-to-classroom perspective. Technically curious and software-capable, he has contributed full-stack improvements to the popular open-source RawTherapee project—refactoring GUI histogram behavior—illustrating a penchant for practical tooling and clean code. Known for a critical, improvement-driven mindset, he thrives in diverse, challenging environments where student contact and clear communication drive impact.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Science Teacher Education, Master of Science (MSc), Science Teacher Education at Universiteit Utrecht
Dutch, English, French, German
Github Skills (9)
gtk10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
front-end-development10
image9
image-processing9
image-processor9
raw-image9
photography8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RawTherapee/RawTherapee
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 182 commits, 124 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Roel primarily worked on refactoring and modifying the RawTherapee GUI, specifically the histogram panel. Their contributions involved removing a full-mode, changing the aspect ratio of the histogram, and modifying the look and scaling behavior of the histogram display. They also implemented toggling between three histogram modes and updated the tooltip for the mode selection button. Further code changes removed the deprecated code.
openexrwxwidgetsrawtherapeeimage-viewerc-plus-plus
helfer/ibo2013
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:146 commits in 1 month
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