Carsten Burgard
Research Staff at University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolCarsten Burgard is a research-focused software and data scientist with 14 years of experience applying C++ and Python to high-energy physics, statistical data analysis, and mathematical modeling. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Freiburg and has driven Higgs and top-quark analyses at institutions including Nikhef, DESY, ATLAS/TU Dortmund, and now University of Hamburg where he works on FPGA-based FastML for the CMS trigger. Skilled at scientific software development and teaching, he has contributed to the ROOT analysis framework—improving readability and maintainability of core C++ roofit components—reflecting an attention to long-term code quality in widely used tools. Colleagues rely on him for supervising students, building statistical tools, and translating complex physics problems into production-capable analysis and trigger systems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at The University of Freiburg
English, Spanish, Latin, German
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
rootkit10
root-finding10
data-analysis9
physics8
computer-engineering7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
root-project/root
May 2017 - Dec 2022
The official repository for ROOT: analyzing, storing and visualizing big data, scientifically
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 50 commits, 54 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Carsten contributed to the `root-project/root` repository by making code formatting improvements across several files, specifically within the `roofit` module. The changes involved modifying code within the `RooWorkspace`, `RooNDKeysPdf`, `RooDataHist`, `RooAbsArg`, `RooMomentMorphFunc`, and `RooMomentMorphFuncND` classes, indicating a focus on code style and potentially refactoring aspects of the physics data analysis framework. These formatting changes likely improve code readability and maintainability of the C++ code base.
pythonroot-cernmathematicsc-plus-plusscientific-visualization
cburgard/MidgardTeX
May 2012 - Jul 2021
Contributions:103 commits, 23 pushes in 9 years 3 months
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