Yifat Dzigan
Section Head at Netherlands eScience Center
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolYifat Dzigan is a Section Head at the Netherlands eScience Center with a decade of experience translating advanced data analysis and statistical modelling into research software and interdisciplinary environmental solutions. Trained as an astrophysicist (PhD in Geophysics and Planetary Sciences), she moved from extracting faint signals in space surveys to leading applied projects in ecology, hydrology and Earth observation, bridging academia and societal impact. She builds and coordinates research-engineering teams that combine Bayesian inference and large-scale data workflows to make complex environmental data usable for scientists and decision-makers. Colleagues rely on her ability to steward both technical delivery and strategic collaboration across university and national research partners. Based in Amsterdam, she routinely turns academic rigor into practical tools that accelerate research reproducibility and real-world environmental insight.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geophysics and Planetary sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Geophysics and Planetary sciences at Tel Aviv UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew, Dutch
Github Skills (53)
infrared10
evaluation10
cffi10
earth10
hpc-applications10
risk-assessment10
diagnostics10
earth-engine10
data-service9
atmospheric-modelling9
potree9
copernicus9
points9
frontend8
react8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
c3s-magic/c3s-magic-frontend
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
C3S Magic Frontend
Contributions:139 commits, 32 PRs, 115 pushes in 3 months
magicreactc3sfrontend
yifatdzigan/ESMValTool
Feb 2019 - May 2019
ESMValTool: A community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP
Contributions:32 pushes in 2 months
routinecmipesmvaltoolearthevaluation
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