Damyn Chipman
Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolDamyn Chipman is a computational physicist and scientific software developer with nine years of experience building and optimizing large-scale physics codes for HPC, currently a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory focused on inertial confinement fusion modeling. He combines deep expertise in numerical methods for PDEs, novel physics model implementation, and performance engineering on some of the world’s fastest supercomputers. His work history spans national labs and academia—contributing material interface reconstruction and nuclear data tooling at LLNL, image-processing and ML calibrations for neutron imaging, and teaching computational geoscience—demonstrating a practical blend of research, software engineering, and mentorship. He earned a PhD in Computational Sciences and Engineering from Boise State and a BS in Applied Physics from BYU, and he frequently pays forward mentorship he received during training. Outside of work he’s an avid mountaineer, which he credits for resetting his perspective and driving persistence on long computational problems. Check his GitHub for current projects and code reflecting a focus on robust, high-performance scientific software.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computing: Computational Sciences and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computing: Computational Sciences and Engineering at Boise State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Applied Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Applied Physics at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
simulation10
parallel9
python9
linux9
windows9
quadtree9
scientific-computing9
octree9
amr9
macos9
open-access8
multiphysics8
pde-solver8
hpc8
journal8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DamynChipman/VSB.jl
Jan 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 release, 161 commits, 132 pushes in 10 months
DamynChipman/DamynChipman
Oct 2020 - Dec 2025
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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