Daniel Leitner
Wissenschaftler at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Leonding, Upper Austria
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Top SchoolDaniel Leitner is an applied mathematician and computational scientist with 10+ years of experience translating mathematical models into robust simulation software for research and application. He has blended academic roles—from postdocs and assistant professorships to a habilitation—with entrepreneurial practice as founder of Simwerk and currently serves as a researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich. His work spans model development, numerics, software implementation, testing and benchmarking, with particular strength in plant–soil interaction, transport processes and image-analysis PDEs. Comfortable moving projects from theory to usable simulation environments, he pairs deep mathematical rigor with practical software engineering and a track record of cross-disciplinary collaboration between universities and research centers. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent focus on validation and reproducibility, ensuring models are not only novel but verifiable and deployable.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyHabilitation, Computational Science, Habilitation, Computational Science at Universität WienProgramming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/CRootBox
Nov 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:151 commits, 10 PRs, 214 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Plant-Root-Soil-Interactions-Modelling/dumux-rosi
Jun 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 release, 167 commits, 12 PRs in 6 years 8 months
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