Francesc Verdugo
Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFrancesc Verdugo is an assistant professor and computational mathematician with nine years of experience building high-performance finite element tools for science and industry. He develops scalable solvers and multigrid preconditioners that run efficiently on CPUs, GPUs, and HPC clouds, translating advanced research into practical simulation software. As founder of the Gridap.jl project, he champions accessible, high-accuracy simulation libraries in the Julia ecosystem and cultivates adoption across academic and industrial users. His background spans academic roles from PhD research in computational and applied mathematics to postdoctoral and research professor positions in Europe, combining deep numerical analysis with production-oriented software engineering. Notably, his work emphasizes reducing time-to-solution at scale, making sophisticated multiphysics methods usable beyond specialist labs.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, German, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (93)
fenics10
programming-language10
spin10
parallel10
parallel-computing10
nonlinear-dynamics10
gmsh10
approximation10
scientific-computing10
pde10
sparse-matrix10
root-finding10
science10
abaqus10
julia10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gridap/Gridap.jl
Mar 2019 - Dec 2022
Grid-based approximation of partial differential equations in Julia
Contributions:149 reviews, 2590 commits, 648 PRs in 3 years 9 months
partial-differential-equationsdifferentialnumerical-integrationsplinespde
gridap/GridapMakie.jl
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Makie plotting recipes for Gridap
Contributions:6 reviews, 49 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years
makiepythonrecipessplinesgridap
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