Austin Zadoks
Postdoctoral Fellow at PSI Paul Scherrer Institut
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAustin Zadoks is a postdoctoral fellow in computational materials science with nine years of experience combining first-principles simulation, high-throughput computation, and machine learning to accelerate materials discovery. Trained at EPFL (PhD) and Purdue (B.S.), he has a strong track record in density functional theory workflows, elastic-constant optimization, and building tools for high-throughput DFT using quantumESPRESSO. His work spans academic research and practical software development—he has contributed full-stack solutions and algorithmic problem-solving across C, Python, and Swift for collaborative coding challenges. Based in Zurich, he brings both deep domain expertise and hands-on coding fluency, with a particular knack for turning complex simulation pipelines into reproducible, scalable workflows.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science at EPFLBachelor of Science (B.S.), Materials Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Materials Engineering at Purdue UniversityMaterials Science, Materials Science at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
YearOfProgramming/2017Challenges
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Austin contributed to multiple challenges, implementing solutions in C, Python, and Swift. They tackled both "Hello World" and input-reversal challenges, showcasing proficiency in fundamental programming concepts. Their work spans various languages and demonstrates an understanding of basic problem-solving through code. The user's contributions included files in multiple directories demonstrating an understanding of the structure of the project.
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zooks97/dftman
Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:48 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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