Bas Nijholt

Bas Nijholt

Quantum Software Development Engineer

Microsoft Quantum

Biography

Hi, my name is Bas. I am a: Python and open-source enthusiast, Ph.D. in theoretical quantum mechanics, and full-time nerd. I live in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Here (or here ) are some pretty pictures that I took, this is where I did my Ph.D., I work at Microsoft Quantum , and see my LinkedIn for some technical details on my daily activities.

Interests
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Landscape photography
  • Open-source software
  • Hiking in the mountains
  • Blockchain technology
  • Home automation
Education
  • PhD in computational Quantum Mechanics, 2020

    TU Delft

  • MSc in Applied Physics, 2015

    TU Delft

  • BSc in Applied Physics, 2012

    TU Delft

Publications

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Projects

Open-source, see my GitHub profile

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home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar

home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar

home-assistant-macbook-touch-bar: Displaying sensors and controlling IoT devices using the Macbook Pro’s touch bar 🤖💻

PhD thesis

PhD thesis

thesis.pdf: Towards realistic numerical simulations of Majorana devices (2020)

Thesis cover

Thesis cover

thesis-cover: each unique copy is designed using quantum simulation data, neural networks, machine learning, and Python

python-yaml2bib

python-yaml2bib

yaml2bib: Convert a readable yaml file with DOIs only to a properly formatted BibTeX file. 📃

Python-adaptive

Python-adaptive

adaptive: tools for adaptive parallel sampling of mathematical functions to speed up simulations by orders of magnitude ⚙️

python-instacron

python-instacron

instacron: Instagram for the lazy - automatically upload a photo to Instagram with autogenerated caption containing #hashtags, a quote, and camera information 📸🌅

Topology in condensed matter course

Topology in condensed matter course

Tying Quantum Knots. An online course for which I wrote a lot of code. See the course website which is generated using these Jupyter notebooks.

Adaptive-scheduler

Adaptive-scheduler

adaptive-scheduler: Run simulations adaptively on many cores (>10k) and easily manage starting and restarting using mpi4py.futures, ipyparallel, or dask-mpi 🎉

Home Assistant

Home Assistant

Many things in my house are automated using the Python Home Assistant framework. I’ve built some interseting automations and app, see my config files and AppDaemon apps 🏠 🤖

ipynb_git_filters

ipynb_git_filters: remove ipynb’s output on each commit to keep a clean history. Not very smart but very useful 🤖

nijho.lt

nijho.lt

nijho.lt: my website made with Hugo on Github that is automatically deloyed with Netlify 🦾

python-aiokef

python-aiokef

aiokef: An asyncio Python library that provides an API to communicate KEF speakers 🔈

python-crypto-bot

python-crypto-bot

crypto-bot: an async cryptocurrency bot using zmq, asyncio, websockets and mad triangular arbitrage trading strategies ♲💵

python-hpc05

python-hpc05

hpc05: a thin wrapper around ipyparallel to easily start workers remotely on a HPC cluster 🖥

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