CV

Professional overview.

Professional Experience

HPC Systems Engineer / Research software engineer

2024-Current
VU Amsterdam
Developed ADA, VU Amsterdam's HPC cluster; worked with researchers on various computational projects.

Postdoctoral researcher

2024
Technische Universiteit Delft
Conducted theoretical and computational research in condensed matter physics in the Quantum Tinkerer group.

Doctoral researcher

2019-2024
Technische Universiteit Delft
Conducted theoretical and computational research in condensed matter physics in the Quantum Tinkerer group.

Intern researcher

2017-2018
NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan.
Experimentally studied Quantum Spin Hall physics in two-dimensional samples using laser techniques.

Intern researcher

2016
Dr. J. Olof Johansson Research Group, University of Edinburgh
Research internship in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Undergraduate researcher

2014-2016
Edinburgh University Young Scientific Research Association
Undergraduate research experience.

Education

Doctor in Science

2019-2024
Technische Universiteit Delft
Computational physics.
Thesis: Coherent manipulation of normal and Andreev fermions

Master of Chemical Physics

2014-2019
University of Edinburgh
First Class Honours.
Thesis: Ab Initio Reflectivity Calculations of Potassium Under Extreme Conditions

Teaching

  • Lecturer and instructor, Casimir programming course, 2022.
  • Teaching assistant and notes co-developer, Solid state physics bachelor course, 2020-2023.

Academic supervision

Master students

  • Jasper Brookman, development of a Hartree-Fock Python package and its application to multilayer graphene, 2024-current.
  • Julian Sanders, spin qubit device gate geometry optimization, 2023-current.
  • Radoica Draskic, topology of a Cooper pair transistor, 2020-2021.

Bachelor students

  • Emma Nielen, Mega Scars: quantum scars in bilayer graphene, 2023.

Selected talks and posters

  • QuMat Pillar meeting, Delft, 2024: Chiral adiabatic transmission protected by Fermi surface topology.
  • Speakers’ Corner, Virtual Science Forum, 2024: Chiral adiabatic transmission protected by Fermi surface topology.
  • APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, 2023: Aharonov-Bohm magnetism in open Fermi surfaces.
  • NWO Physics, Veldhoven, 2023: Aharonov-Bohm magnetism in open Fermi surfaces.
  • Topological Matter School, San Sebastian, 2022: Bloch-Lorentz magnetoresistance oscillations in delafossites.