Dominik Gresch
Sr Staff R&D Engineer at Synopsys Inc
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDominik Gresch is a Sr Staff R&D Engineer based in Zurich with 11 years of experience blending deep physics and mathematics with pragmatic software engineering to solve hard computational problems. He holds a PhD from ETH Zürich in condensed-matter physics and has translated academic discoveries—including the identification of a novel quasiparticle—into production-ready algorithms and tools. Dominik has a broad technical footprint from low-level optimizations and library design to cloud deployments, and has led R&D teams at Ansys and Synopsys while maintaining a strong open-source presence. He is comfortable mentoring and teaching technical topics, having supervised theses and lectured on numerical methods and computational quantum physics. Known for quickly adapting to new technologies, he thrives at the intersection of research and product engineering, turning complex physics into scalable software.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics at ETH Zürich
English, German, French
Github Skills (200)
ansys10
python10
computational-science10
windows10
linter10
scientific-computing10
ssh10
mesh10
simulations10
linux10
pythonic10
scheduler10
condensed-matter-physics10
science10
julia10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ansys/ansys-tools-filetransfer-server
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Server implementation for the Ansys Filetransfer Utility
Contributions:13 reviews, 33 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year
greschd/aiida-registry
Jul 2017 - Oct 2020
Experimental registry for aiida plugins
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 3 months
pythonaiida
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