Thomas Günther
Professor Applied Geophysics Electromagnetics And Potential Methods at TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Freiberg, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Günther is a professor and applied geophysicist with 15+ years researching near-surface methods—especially electromagnetic techniques like ERT, NMR, FDEM, DEM and GPR—and developing advanced data-analysis and inversion algorithms. He recently moved from a long senior-researcher role at the Leibniz Institute to a professorship at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, where he combines teaching with applied algorithm development. His PhD and Dipl.-Geoph. are from Freiberg, and his work blends rigorous numerical analysis with practical field-data processing. An active contributor to the open-source gimli geophysical inversion library, he has implemented core SIP processing features and improved SIP data handling for Pybert integration, reflecting a rare mix of domain expertise and software engineering. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex physics into robust, reproducible code and algorithms used in both research and applied geophysical surveys.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Geophysics, Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), Geophysics at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg
English, German
Github Skills (4)
file-handling10
data-analysis10
python10
geophysics9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gimli-org/gimli
Jun 2011 - Nov 2022
Geophysical Inversion and Modeling Library :earth_africa:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 1 review, 810 commits in 11 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas focused on moving a class related to the processing of SIP (Spectral Induced Polarization) field data to a Pybert module and implementing core SIP features within the physics/SIP/sip.py file. Their work involved significant code modifications, including file name changes, function updates and enhancements and modifications within python/pygimli/physics/SIP/sipspectrum.py to improve the class for the pybert::SIPdata requirements. Additionally, modifications include the addition of reading SIP files and implementing an automatic determination of epsilon value.
inversionpythonfinite-volumegeophysicsearth
gimli-org/example-data
May 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 15 pushes, 10 comments in 2 years 9 months
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