Germain Clavier
Maître De Conférences at IUT Grand Ouest Normandie
Alençon, Normandy, France
Summary
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Top SchoolGermain Clavier is an associate professor and computational physicist with eight years of experience modeling polymers and thin-film growth at atomistic and coarse-grained scales. He holds a PhD in physical sciences and has held postdoctoral positions at CNRS, Université Clermont Auvergne and TU/e, where he studied residual stress physics in thin film deposition. A prolific scientific software engineer, he contributed a compute module to the widely used LAMMPS molecular dynamics code and develops libraries interfacing with tools like OVITO, VMD and Python. He combines deep domain knowledge in statistical physics with practical software craftsmanship—Git, Markdown/Pandoc and reproducible workflows—helping researchers get the most from their tools. Based in Alençon, France, he balances teaching and research while continuing to publish (ORCID listed) and chip away at coding challenges like Advent of Code in his spare time.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2 (M2), Modélisation statistique et algorithmique, Master 2 (M2), Modélisation statistique et algorithmique at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)Doctorat, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Doctorat, PHYSICAL SCIENCES at Université Paris-Saclay
French, English, Dutch
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
cprogramming-language10
molecular-simulation10
nonlinear-dynamics10
algorithms8
algorithm8
implement8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lammps/lammps
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Public development project of the LAMMPS MD software package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 30 commits, 9 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Germain's primary contribution appears to be the initial implementation and modification of a compute module, "compute_born", which is involved in calculating elastic constant computations in the LAMMPS molecular dynamics software package. The user added a new class, "ComputeBorn", and implemented functionality to calculate and store the Born tensor contribution from pair interactions. Further development involved adding bond, angle, and dihedral contributions, along with refactoring and correcting indexing issues.
lammpsmolecular-dynamicssimulationkokkos
Bibobu/vim
Nov 2019 - Oct 2023
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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