Simon Stähler
Curriculum Director at ETH Zürich | Space
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSimon Stähler is an earthquake scientist and curriculum director based in Zurich with 14 years of experience bridging seismology, space systems and education. At ETH Zürich he’s leading the new M.Sc. in Space Systems while maintaining an active research profile that ranges from deploying seismometers on bridges and the ocean floor to analyzing seismic data from Mars. A seasoned contributor to ObsPy, he has implemented SCARDEC format support and robust I/O fixes, showing a rare blend of field instrumentation expertise and back-end scientific software development. His work combines large-scale data, sustainability and state-of-the-art engineering, and he’s known for turning challenging observational problems into teachable, operational solutions.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor (Ph.D.), Geophysics, scl, Doktor (Ph.D.), Geophysics, scl at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenStudium Generale, Studium Generale at Leibniz Kolleg TübingenDiplom-Physiker, Physics, Diplom-Physiker, Physics at Leipzig UniversityEidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichIGSSE, IGSSE at Technische Universität München
German, English, Russian, French
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Github Skills (13)
file-handling10
seismology10
filetype10
file-conversion10
io10
file-operations10
python10
fileio10
file-format10
numpy9
testing9
waveform8
signal-processing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
obspy/obspy
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
ObsPy: A Python Toolbox for seismology/seismological observatories.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the ObsPy library by addressing issues and enhancing the SCARDEC file format support. They fixed a typo in the CMTSOLUTION writing process. They also implemented a reader and writer for the SCARDEC file format, which includes a moment rate function, and wrote tests for the new functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed a rounding bug and made the SCARDEC writing process compatible with Python 2.
seismologypythonsciencetoolboxdata-center
sstaehler/mqs_reports
Oct 2022 - Jun 2024
Tools to create reports and derived information from the MQS database
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 8 months
reportsderivedmqttdatabase
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