Alberto Paganini
Associate Professor In Applied And Computational Mathematics
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlberto Paganini is an associate professor in applied and computational mathematics with nine years of experience translating PDE-constrained optimization and numerical simulation into industrial and interdisciplinary solutions. He is the main developer of Fireshape, a scientific library that accelerates shape optimization workflows across imaging, mechanics, fluid dynamics and electromagnetism, and contributes backend improvements to the widely used Firedrake finite-element project. As a KE Super Champion at the UK Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences and holder of an ICMS KE Catalyst Fellowship, he actively bridges academia and industry, currently collaborating with The Alan Nuttall Partnership Ltd. His work blends rigorous theory and practical software engineering—improving core checkpointing and timestamping features that make long-running PDE simulations more robust and reproducible. Trained at ETH Zurich (PhD), he combines deep numerical expertise with a knack for turning research code into production-ready tools used beyond academia.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics at ETH Zürich
Italian, English, German, French
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Github Skills (10)
hdf10
finite-element-analysis10
el10
checkpoint10
f10
python10
scientific-computing10
checkpointing10
pytest9
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
firedrakeproject/firedrake
Nov 2016 - Apr 2022
Firedrake is an automated system for the portable solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method (FEM)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 41 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alberto's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the checkpointing functionality within the Firedrake library. They added features for timestamping data storage in HDF5 files, enabling the storage and retrieval of functions at specific time points. The user also fixed bugs, improved unit tests, and added a test for writing/reading multiple functions with timestamps. These changes demonstrate an improvement to a core feature of the library.
equationspartialfemmethodsimulation
APaganini/firedrake
Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
Firedrake is an automated system for the portable solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method (FEM)
Contributions:34 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 9 months
equationsssreflectpartialfemmethod
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