Okke van Eck

Okke van Eck is a Research Engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, focusing on offloading climate models to GPUs as part of the European Destination Earth project since September 2023. Previously, Okke served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Amsterdam, where the role involved teaching programming to students. Additionally, Okke held positions as Commissioner of Education for the Vereniging Informatiewetenschappen Amsterdam and co-founded eJournal, a platform for the University of Amsterdam's colloquium system. Experience also includes roles as a Tutoring Teacher at StudentsPlus Nederland and a Junior Consultant at ClickValue. Okke earned a Master of Science in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2023, following a Bachelor of Science in Informatica from the University of Amsterdam in 2020. Educational background also includes VWO-Technasium from Keizer Karel College.