Daniel Walkup
Physicist at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Walkup is a physicist with 22 years of experience applying computational methods to materials and nanoscale science, currently conducting research and development at NIST and the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. He blends hands‑on experimental insight with software development, contributing to scientific Python projects like FiPy and PyMKS that support modeling and data-driven materials design. His background as a long-term graduate researcher and postdoc gives him deep expertise in translating physics problems into robust, deployable code for applied scientific applications. Based in Gaithersburg, MD, he focuses on bridging the gap between research prototypes and operational tools used by the broader metrology and materials community. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem solving and for making complex simulations accessible through reusable open-source libraries.
22 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Boston College
Github Skills (148)
python10
nix10
solver10
forge10
loops10
distributed-computing10
pde-solver10
scientific-computing10
conda-forge10
pde10
pandas10
nixos10
linux10
dft10
stable10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
marda-alliance/phase-field-schema
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
MaRDA Working Group on Phase Field Schema
Contributions:2 reviews, 37 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 6 months
wd15/env
Feb 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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