Maarten Breddels

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Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen
Bio
Maarten Breddels is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands. He earned a bachelor in Information Technology, and a bachelor, master and PhD in Astronomy. Maarten has experience in low level languages as assembly and C, to higher level languages such as C++ to Java, Javascript and Python. His PhD research was on the field of galactic dynamics. He is now working for the Gaia mission, combing astronomy and IT, to enable visualization and exploration of the large dataset this satellite will yield. Through the work on ipyvolume he has become one of the ipywidgets developers.