Daniel Winklehner
Research Scientist at IsoDAR Collaboration
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolDaniel Winklehner is a research scientist and accelerator physicist with nine years of focused experience designing and modeling ion sources and particle accelerators, currently based at MIT and living in Munich. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Michigan State University and combines hands-on experimental work, code development for accelerator simulations, and supervision/teaching across graduate and undergraduate teams. At MIT he transitioned from postdoc to research scientist while also serving as Co-Spokesperson for the IsoDAR Collaboration, blending leadership with deep technical contribution to large-scale physics projects. His toolset spans mathematical modeling and simulation (COMSOL), CAD for engineering design (Autodesk Inventor), and Python for data analysis and code development. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex beam-physics problems into practical engineering solutions and robust simulation tools. An Austrian-trained physicist who has worked at leading labs (PSI, Berkeley Lab, NSCL), he brings a rare mix of experimental intuition and computational rigor to accelerator R&D.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at Michigan State University
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
teensy7
peripheral6
simulation6
particle6
physics5
diffraction5
qt-gui4
python4
arduino4
gpu3
spiral3
pyqt2
accelerator1
hpc1
blast1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DanielWinklehner/py_particle_processor
May 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
particlegui-basedgtk-3simulationgui
DanielWinklehner/pycontrolsystem
Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
Python-based control system with QT-based GUI class and separate server class to talk to peripheral devices like Arduino, Teensy, power supplies, etc.
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 37 pushes in 2 years 2 months
pythongui-basedsuppliesteensyseparate
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