Felix Firmbach
PHD Student at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolFelix Firmbach is a PhD student and experimental astronomer based in Munich with five years of hands-on experience building detector electronics and instrumentation for ground- and space-based observatories. He currently contributes to telescope instrumentation at the European Southern Observatory while also working on a near-infrared adaptive optics design for the Galactic Center at the Max Planck Institute. His background spans driving a 2k NIR detector with programmable ASICs, developing X-ray detectors for the ATHENA mission, and designing high-voltage supplies for space particle detectors—skills that bridge electronics, firmware, and applied physics. He has taught digital design and semiconductor physics at TUM, led student detector teams, and progressed from network administration to specialist engineering roles, reflecting strong practical system-level expertise. Colleagues value his ability to translate demanding scientific requirements into robust hardware and control solutions under observatory-grade constraints. Unusually for someone on an academic path, he combines deep lab instrumentation experience with operational familiarity from large international facilities.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Technical University of MunichApprenticeship, Computer Science Expert, Apprenticeship, Computer Science Expert at IHK Bildungszentrum Würzburg-Schweinfurt
German, English
Github Skills (30)
lists10
scientific-computing10
algorithms9
hpc9
trilinos9
coupling8
adapter8
bem8
openfoam8
co-simulation7
shared-memory6
react5
multiphysics5
partial5
computational-science5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
maxfirmbach/Trilinos
May 2021 - Feb 2025
Primary repository for the Trilinos Project
Contributions:81 pushes, 29 branches in 3 years 9 months
solidworkstrilinosdatabase-access
maxfirmbach/dune-elastodynamics
Sep 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 2 years 7 months
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