Christos Kotsalos
Research Software Engineer at CSCS
Matran, Fribourg, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolChristos Kotsalos is a research software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in high-performance computing, multi-physics/multi-scale simulations, and extreme software performance on Top500 supercomputers. He has driven scalable parallel implementations for computational biomedicine (digital blood) and astrophysics codes, bridging domain science with production-grade HPC techniques (MPI/OpenMP/OpenACC) and active contributions to open-source CFD tooling. A PhD in Computer Science and roles at CSCS, EPFL/Blue Brain, and the University of Geneva underscore his ability to translate complex numerical models into efficient, deployable software while collaborating closely with clinicians and experimentalists. Beyond code, he has led teaching on HPC and probabilistic algorithms and secured research funding and engineering standards compliance in industry, reflecting a rare mix of hands-on optimization, scientific rigor, and stakeholder-facing impact.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of GenevaMaster’s Degree, Computational Science & Engineering, 5.24 (6 point scale), Master’s Degree, Computational Science & Engineering, 5.24 (6 point scale) at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneDiploma in Civil Engineering (equivalent to MSc), Civil Engineering, 8.87 (10 point scale), Diploma in Civil Engineering (equivalent to MSc), Civil Engineering, 8.87 (10 point scale) at National Technical University of Athens
English, French, Greek
Github Skills (83)
cffi10
code-generation10
fpga10
dsl10
neuroscience10
modeling10
mesh9
electrophysiology9
code-generator9
simulations9
high-performance9
spiking-neural-networks9
computational-neuroscience9
simulator9
programming-language9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kotsaloscv/gt4py
Nov 2023 - Aug 2024
Python library for generating high-performance implementations of stencil kernels for weather and climate modeling from a domain-specific language (DSL).
Contributions:146 pushes, 11 branches in 9 months
kotsaloscv/PLTs-FatTails
May 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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