Alberto De La Ossa
Scientist at DESY
Greater Hamburg Area Germany
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Top SchoolAlberto De La Ossa is a theoretical and computational physicist with over a decade of experience leading modeling and particle-in-cell simulation efforts for plasma wakefield accelerators at DESY and partner institutions. He earned a PhD in particle physics from the University of Granada and began his career developing novel event-reconstruction algorithms and early neural-network techniques for liquid-argon neutrino detectors. Since 2011 he has driven original simulation-based advances in PWFA, coordinating theory groups and major WP efforts within ATHENA-e, EuPRAXIA and FLASHForward while also acting as principal investigator on hybrid acceleration experiments. His work blends deep theoretical insight, high-performance computing leadership (including JUQUEEN resource use), and practical experimental coordination to translate concepts into testable accelerator schemes. Based in Greater Hamburg, he is noted for applying cross-disciplinary methods—from Monte Carlo and PIC codes to machine-learning ideas—to push beam-quality and injection strategies forward.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Elementary Particle Physics at Universidad de Granada
Github Skills (17)
simulations10
openpmd10
simulation9
python9
ocelot9
vtk9
multiphysics7
data-analysis7
data-visualization7
gpu6
radiation6
pyopencl5
opencl4
visualizer3
conda2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
delaossa/optimas_pp
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:50 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
delaossa/Wake-T
Jan 2021 - Nov 2025
A fast tracking code for plasma accelerators
Contributions:54 pushes, 29 branches in 4 years 11 months
plasmaacceleratorstracking-codetracking
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