Michael Vorster

European Patent Attorney

About

I am a European patent attorney working with inventions ranging from nanotechology to recycling. I have a background in Astrophysics, which includes a number of years as a post-doctoral researcher. I also have work experience as a software developer (web development) and as an analyst in the banking sector.

Country

City

Germany

Industry

Law Practice

Skill

Physics, Research, Python, Mathematical Modeling, Website Development, LaTeX, C++, Django, University Teaching, Higher Education, SQL, Science, Fortran, Programming, Numerical Analysis, Mathematics, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Git, Kubernetes

Experience

European Patent Attorney

Herzog IP Patentanwalts GmbH

2023-8 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Patent Engineer

Herzog IP Patentanwalt GmbH

2019-6 - 2023-8 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Astrophysics

University of Potsdam

2017-5 - 2019-4 · 2 yrs

Potsdam Area, Germany

My responsibilities include: - Fundamental research into various aspects related to the propagation of charged particles in magnetised interstellar turbulence - Development of software for research purposes (using Python, Fortran, C) - Presenting tutorial classes for master students - Organisation of group meetings

Python developer

Kagiso Media Innovations

2016-7 - 2017-4 · 10 mos

Cape Town

My responsibilities include: - Developing and maintaining the Python back-end infrastructure for a number of websites (using the Django web framework, and 'Wagtail' content management system) - Continuous deployment and integration - Developing and maintaining software tests - Developing API's for mobile services - Developing and maintaining a NodeJS websocket server - Ad hoc code development for miscellaneous tasks (e.g., web scraping, TCP/IP sockets) - Integrating and using various third-party web services, e.g., Heroku, AWS, Codeship - Integrating DFP (DoubleClick for Publishing) and the Rubicon advertising platform - Researching and testing services such as Kubernetes and Docker to see if this would improve the company’s software products - Liaising with stakeholders in order to understand how the websites can be improved. This includes overall usability of the websites, as well as understanding the special needs of the stakeholders

Junior Python developer

Kagiso Media

2016-1 - 2016-6 · 6 mos

Cape Town

Junior credit analyst

Capitec

2015-5 - 2016-1 · 9 mos

Stellenbosch, South Africa

My responsibilities included: - Calculating the monthly bad debt provision for the outstanding loan book - Calculating the recovery on loans that have defaulted - Improving the existing statistical Bad Debt Provision and Loss Given Default models - Assisting in developing an Advanced Internal Ratings Based model - Monthly reporting on provisions and various other aspects of the bank - Ad hoc analysis of data - Improve existing and develop large-scale SQL queries for data mining

Postdoctoral scholar in computational astrophysics

Purdue University

2014-3 - 2015-3 · 1 yr 1 mo

West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

My responsibilities include: - Using numerical/computational simulations to model complex astrophysical systems - Development of software for research purposes (C/C++)

Junior Lecturer

North-West University / Noordwes-Universiteit

2009-1 - 2014-2 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Potchefstroom, South Africa

My responsibilities included: - Lecturing (Classical Mechanics, Astrophysics, Introduction to programming with IDL) - Setting and grading of homework assignments, tests, and exams - Choosing the syllabus