Hi, I am Sander Borst,

I am a software developer at Eneco, where I build optimization software for digital twins to help accelerate the energy transition. I currently work mainly in Python, but I'm comfortable across languages and paradigms, and pick the tool that fits the problem.

My background in mathematics and theoretical computer science shapes how I build software: I like to understand a problem’s structure first, then turn that insight into code that is fast, correct and maintainable.

Before Eneco, I was a postdoc in the Algorithms and Complexity group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, and did my PhD in the Networks & Optimization group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam, advised by Daniel Dadush. My research is on online algorithms, which make good decisions before the full input is known, including:

• online network design
• online (hypergraph) matching
• online graph exploration

I hold degrees in mathematics and computer science from Delft University of Technology.

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