Ferran Planella
Associate Professor
Coventry, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFerran Planella is an Associate Professor and applied mathematics researcher with 8+ years building physics-driven battery models and software at the University of Warwick and The Faraday Institution. He co-founded Ionworks to productize PyBaMM-based battery simulation tools and is a long-standing PyBaMM maintainer and steering council member, contributing deep DFN-model implementations and electrolyte transport refinements. His work bridges rigorous mathematical modelling and production-ready Python engineering, routinely translating complex electrochemical equations into tested, extensible code. Based in Coventry, he combines academic leadership as a co-investigator on multi-scale modelling projects with entrepreneurial experience, making him equally fluent in theory, open-source collaboration, and commercial battery simulation.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Mathematics at University of OxfordCFIS-UPCUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Catalan, Spanish, English, German, Italian
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python10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pybamm-team/PyBaMM
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Fast and flexible physics-based battery models in Python
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 628 reviews, 877 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ferran's contributions focused on implementing and extending the functionality of the DFN model, which is a physics-based model for battery simulation. They added several new variables to the model's framework, incorporated particle-size distributions, and refined the definition and handling of electrolyte transport, which is a core element of the physics being modeled, and also added tests. The work involved significant interaction with the underlying mathematical equations describing the physics, and implementing these equations into code.
chemical-engineeringphysicspower-systemspythonbattery
brosaplanella/TEC-reduced-model
Oct 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 35 commits, 12 pushes in 7 months
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