About Us
erosiv is a small software studio based in Vienna Austria, specialized in the field of numerical morphology. We have a strong focus on research and development in this area, as well as many years of software engineering experience.
Our core mission is to combine research and development activities with ethical software development practices to provide cutting edge solutions to problems in our field.
We are interested in collaborations and are happy to provide consulting work in this field as well.
What is Numerical Morphology?
Numerical Morphology is the study and application of mathematical tools to the modeling of form and structure. This is a very broad, interdisciplinary topic, intimately related to a diverse set of disciplines: from theoretical concepts in dynamic systems and partial differential equations, to concrete applications in engineering, biology and geology and its ultimate realization as software with concepts from 3D graphics programming and machine learning.
While this set of subjects seems prohibitively broad to summarize into a single topic, the reality is that they exhibit very strong and fundamental similarities when analyzed with specific mathematical tools and concepts. It is this unified understanding that constitutes Numerical Morphology.
Team
Nick McDonald
erosiv was founded by Nick McDonald in the spring of 2025.
Nick graduated from ETH Zurich in 2020 with a Masters degree in Process Engineering, with a specialization in the numerical and statistical modeling of complex transport phenomena. Independently, he developed an interest in graphics programming, teaching himself OpenGL and CUDA. With these skills, he has published many articles and popular open source software packages at the intersection of engineering, computing and graphics.
Nick had many years of experience working professionally as a software engineer before starting erosiv studio. From writing cloud-native micro-services to designing large-scale engines for the simulation of inverse light transport, his expertise is as broad and as deep as his interests.
One particular subject which he always returns to is numerical geomorphology, as a topic that perfectly exemplifies the central position that numerical morphology can take between a broad set of interesting disciplines.