Christopher Buurma
Senior Modeling And Simulation Scientist
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Buurma is a Senior Modeling and Simulation Scientist and computational physicist with over a decade of experience translating complex multi-scale physics into production-ready simulation tools and patents. He blends deep expertise in electronic structure, molecular dynamics, continuum mechanics, quantum optics, and sensor systems with advanced mathematical skills in Bayesian/frequentist statistics, sparse reconstruction, and convex optimization. Comfortable in C++, Python, HPC Linux environments, and modern ML stacks like PyTorch, he has built physics-aware neural networks and AI-driven decision systems that operate without human-in-the-loop. Christopher has led interdisciplinary teams in both industry and national-lab settings, authored 15 patents and 50+ publications, and served as primary technical host for external clients on classified and unclassified projects. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he pairs academic rigor from a PhD in Computational Physics with practical systems engineering experience—he even experiments with a robot battle simulation game in his spare time, reflecting a hands-on curiosity that informs his research.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science at Ashland UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Physics, Semiconductor Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Physics, Semiconductor Physics at University of Illinois at Chicago
English, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (5)
Fermi-Dirac/biscotti
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
Fermi-Dirac/Vasp-Helper
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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