Lotte Mertens

Dr. Lotte Mertens

Principal Data Scientist at Valcon

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Industry Experience

Principal Data Scientist at Valcon
Nov, 2023 – Present
Delivering data science and engineering solutions across multiple industries. Projects include a SharePoint API integration for a real estate investor, a complex data warehouse migration and analysis for a financial institution, and a RAG-based analytics solution for an automotive client.

Research History

PhD research at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden and the University of Amsterdam
Dec, 2020 – Sep, 2023
PhD cum laude, thesis submitted September 2023 and defended January 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. van den Brink and Dr. Jasper van Wezel. Research on analogue black holes, quantum measurement, and charge density waves.
Short research program at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden
Sep, 2020 – Dec, 2020
Research on analogue black holes in materials, supervised by Prof. Dr. Jeroen van den Brink.
Masters thesis at the University of Amsterdam
Sep, 2019 – Aug, 2020
"Spontaneous Unitary Violations and Effective Non-linearity in Relation to Quantum State Reduction", supervised by Dr. Jasper van Wezel.
Bachelor thesis at the University of Amsterdam
May, 2018 – Aug, 2018
"Postulates on Holographic Complexity", supervised by Prof. Dr. J. de Boer.
Asteroid Search Campaign at the Space Generation Advisory Council
Sep, 2017 – Oct, 2017
Analysed data from telescopes in Hawaii to contribute to the asteroid database.
Research Summer School at the European Space Agency and European Low Gravity Research Association, Redu, Belgium
Jan, 2011 – May, 2013
Competitive summer school; trainers from across Europe shared expertise on space-related fields.

Education

Masters in Theoretical Physics from the University of Amsterdam
2018 – 2020
Cum Laude with a 9.4 average
Bachelor in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Amsterdam
2015 – 2018
Cum Laude, Honours with a 9.2 average. Erasmus exchange to Lund University, Sweden. Interdisciplinary courses in philosophy, gender studies, theatre and archaeology.

Professional Skills

Programming & Data

Python
SQL
C++
Databricks (certified)
LaTeX

Languages

Dutch
English
German
Spanish
Swedish

Contact

Email

lotte.mertens@valcon.com
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