Elspeth Smith
Doctoral Candidate
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolElspeth Smith is a doctoral candidate in theoretical and computational condensed matter physics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum with a decade of experience bridging scientific research and full‑stack software engineering. She models solid–liquid gold interfaces to quantify electronic polarisation effects, aiming to extend planar studies to nanoparticles in collaboration with experimental groups. Trained with an MPhys in Computational Physics from the University of Edinburgh, she has applied ab initio methods to discover a stable superionic phase in brucite and presented at major German physics meetings. Parallel commercial roles as a software engineer and contractor have given her practical strengths in web development, data analysis, and reproducible scientific computing. Comfortable moving between C/Python simulation code and production web stacks, she brings a rare combination of hands‑on coding fluency and deep physical insight. Colleagues describe her as methodical, collaborative, and keen to translate complex models into testable experiments.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Physics - MPhys, Computational Physics, 2:1 (Very good, ≈1.5 in the German system), Master of Physics - MPhys, Computational Physics, 2:1 (Very good, ≈1.5 in the German system) at The University of Edinburgh
German, English, French
Github Skills (76)
bootstrap-sass10
bootstrap9
docker9
jekyll9
javascript8
url-parsing8
image-processing8
sass8
css8
url-parser8
fetch8
adaptation7
irc-bot7
spam7
python7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
findoslice/fakeNewsDetector
Oct 2017 - Dec 2018
Have you got the GUTS 2017, Spam Heuristic Internet Technologies team
Contributions:37 PRs, 74 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
heuristictechnologiesurl-parserspamurl-parsing
elenalape/LitSoc
Oct 2017 - Nov 2023
Edinburgh University Lithuanian Society Webpage
Contributions:3 PRs in 6 years 2 months
lithuanianedinburghjekyllwebpage
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