Ferdinand Jamitzky
Senior Scientific Officer at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolFerdinand Jamitzky is a Senior Scientific Officer with over 11 years in applied research and scientific computing, currently based at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching. Trained as a physicist with a PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and a diploma from TUM, he brings decades of hands-on research experience from roles at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. He combines deep domain expertise in physics with pragmatic software skills—comfortable writing in Python, R and J—to turn complex scientific problems into reproducible computational workflows. Known as a “mad scientist” on GitHub, he favors exploratory, data-driven approaches and continuously refines tools that accelerate research. Colleagues value his blend of rigorous experimental thinking and practical engineering that bridges academia and high-performance computing.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenDiploma, Physics, Diploma, Physics at Technical University of Munich
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
julia8
science8
machine-learning7
programming-language7
fortran6
parallel-processing6
subscript6
foreach6
hpc6
operator-overloading6
numerical6
r6
petsc5
julialang4
root-finding4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jamitzky/redisexec
Jul 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
jamitzky/python_infix
Jan 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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