Dr. Mike Müller has been working with Python since 1999 and teaching it professionally since 2004. As a trainer at Python Academy (https://www.python-academy.com), he has taught over 580 Python courses totaling more than 1,400 teaching days to thousands of participants worldwide.

Mike has taught more than 75 tutorials at Python conferences, including 29 tutorials at PyCon US over the years. He is known for his hands-on teaching approach, live coding demonstrations, and comprehensive course materials that participants can use as references long after the tutorial ends. His tutorials blend practical examples with solid theoretical foundations, making complex topics accessible and immediately applicable.

Beyond teaching, Mike is deeply involved in the Python community. He has organized conferences including PyCon DE, EuroSciPy, and numerous BarCamps. His contributions to the community have been recognized with the PSF Community Service Award and PSF Fellow status. He serves as chair of the German Python Software Verband.

Mike holds a doctorate in hydrology and brings a scientific perspective to programming education. He believes in learning by doing and creates supportive environments where participants feel comfortable asking questions and experimenting with code.

Dr. Mike Müller

Education

• German Diplom-Ingenieur Wasserwirtschaft (5 years) at University of
  Technology Dresden,
  Germany -- Wasserwirtschaft literal translation water management, engineering
  degree in water resources management with focus on groundwater hydrology and
  modelling
• MS in Hydrology and Water Resources at University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
• Ph.D. in Mining Hydrology at BTU Cottbus, Germany -- Development of a coupled
  surface water and groundwater model for open pit mine lakes (PITLAKQ)

Work Experience

• Combination of hydrology and software development
• Coupling of models
• Python teaching -- since 2004, >1500 full teaching days with focus on scientist and engineers

Model Coupling

I have experience in coupling different hydrological and hydraulic models, such as:

PITLAKQ

This is my Ph.D. work that couples a finite volume groundwater model (PCGEOFIM),
a hydrodynamic and water quality lake Model (CE-QUAL-W2), and a
hydro-geo-chemical model (PHREEQC).
PITLAKQ is open source.
It has been applied world wide.
I used it for pit lakes in Germany, Australia, and Canada.
Others have used it in many other countries of the world.

Coupling of a river flood model and a groundwater model

I have been involved in a research project that couples a river model, a sewer
pipeline model and groundwater model for the river Elbe in the city of Dresden,
Germany.
I was responsible for the coupling of the river model and the groundwater
model.

Rainfall runoff model -- groundwater model

I implemented a coupling of a rainfall runoff model (ArcEGMO) and a groundwater
model (PCGEOFIM) for a watershed in Germany.

Density-driven flow in groundwater and lake

I coupled a density-driven groundwater flow and transport model (MODMST) to
PITLAKQ.
This was used for a long-term simulation of a sub-aquatic landfill,
i.e. a lake over a deposit of mining waste.

MODFLOW with dynamic boundary conditions - pymf6

I am the developer of pymf6
that allows to interact with MODFLOW 6 via Python at runtime.
This can be used to implement dynamic boundary conditions.
Examples are:

• water-level-controlled wells that dynamically adjust their pumping rates
  based on simulated water levels in the aquifer
• dynamic values of the resistance of the colmation layer at the river bottom
  that depend on the flow direction between river and aquifer
• technical heat boundary conditions in urban settings such as building
  basements and tunnels

MODFLOW 6 with AEM

I coupled an Analytic Element Model (AEM)
TTim with MODFLOW 6
via pymf6.
This allows to combine the grid-based approach of MODFLOW with the analytic,
grid-less approach of AEMs.

MODFLOW 6 with PHREEQC -- rtmf6

I coupled MODFLOW 6 with the geochemical model PHREEQC via
PhreeqPyusing
PhreeqcRM.
I am the author of PhreeqPy.
The result is rtmf6.