Grzegorz Kowal
Professor at Universidade de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolGrzegorz Kowal is a professor and computational physicist with 12 years of experience modeling plasma processes in astrophysics, currently based at the Universidade de São Paulo. His research spans magnetic reconnection, particle acceleration, astrophysical jets and turbulence, combining advanced numerical methods with scientific visualization to probe collisionless and collisional plasma regimes. He has held postdoctoral and research roles across Europe and North America, bringing international collaboration experience from institutions such as Jagiellonian University, UW–Madison, McMaster, and McMaster. As an educator he teaches physics and calculus while sustaining an active research agenda, translating complex theoretical work into teachable insights and visual tools. An under-the-radar strength is his long-term focus on connecting universal turbulence laws to observable astrophysical phenomena, bridging theory, simulation and pedagogy.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D., Astronomy, Ph. D., Astronomy at Jagiellonian University
Polish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (23)
seccomp10
btrfs10
bitbake10
vfs10
code-injection10
userspace10
artifacts9
starlark9
delta9
binaries8
kernel4
linux-kernel4
chunking3
linux2
metadata2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gkowal/btrfs-progs
Jun 2019 - Mar 2023
Development of userspace BTRFS tools
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
userspacebtrfsbtrfs-tools
gkowal/particles
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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