About the Author

Robert Johansson is an experienced Python programmer and computational scientist, with a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He has worked with scientific computing in academia and industry for over 10 years, and he has participated in both open source development and proprietary research projects. His open source contributions include work on QuTiP, a popular Python framework for simulating the dynamics of quantum systems; and he has also contributed to several other popular Python libraries in the scientific computing landscape. Robert is passionate about scientific computing and software development, and about teaching and communicating best practices for bringing these fields together with optimal outcome: novel, reproducible, and extensible computational results. Robert’s background includes 5 years of postdoctoral research in theoretical and computational physics, and more recently he has taken on a role as a data scientist in the IT industry.