about me

Merlijn van Deen is a PhD student in soft matter physics at Leiden University, and contributes to open source in his spare time.

Science

  • Merlijn S. van Deen, Johannes Simon, Zorana Zeravcic, Simon Dagois-Bohy, Brian P. Tighe and Martin van Hecke: Contact changes near jamming. Physical Review E 90 020202(R), 2014. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.90.020202 arXiv:1404.3156

  • Merlijn S. van Deen, Thibault Bertrand, Nhung Vu, David Quéré, Eric Clément and Anke Lindner: Particles accelerate the detachment of viscous liquids. Rheologica Acta 52 (5) pp 403-412, 2013. doi:10.1007/s00397-013-0691-9 arXiv:1301.7604

  • Merlijn van Deen: Gekke druppels. Eureka 37, pp 6-9, 2013 (in Dutch). pdf

  • Merlijn van Deen: Experiments on the droplet detachment of suspensions. MSc thesis, PMMH/ESPCI, Paris / Universiteit Leiden, 2012.
  • Merlijn van Deen: Measurements on 2D Force Networks. MSc thesis, Universiteit Leiden, 2011.
  • Merlijn van Deen: Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy. BSc thesis, Universiteit Leiden, 2010.

Free software

Most of the projects I've contributed to can be found on github. A few highlights:

  • pywikibot, the Python Mediawiki Bot Framework. Continued involvement in development since 2006.
  • Gerrit Reviewer Bot; a tool which adds reviewers to patches in Gerrit based on subscriptions on a wiki page. Helps get patches reviewed quickly on Wikimedia's Gerrit since december 2012.
  • Gerrit Patch Uploader; Flask website which uploads changesets to Gerrit for you. Gerrit has a steep learning curve, and this helps new contributors to join Wikimedia related development quickly.
  • flask-mwoauth; Flask blueprint to connect to Mediawiki OAuth providers.