Hilding Elmqvist
CEO at Noledom Holding AB
Malmo, Sweden
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Top SchoolHilding Elmqvist is a pioneering CEO and inventor with a Ph.D. in Automatic Control who created the Dymola modeling language and drove the international development of Modelica for object-oriented physical modeling. Over four decades he has founded and led startups and strategic R&D — notably Dynasim (acquired by Dassault Systèmes) and later Mogram — turning academic advances in declarative, connection-based modeling into commercial tools used in industry and CATIA Systems. As CTO Systems at Dassault and a long-time advisor to Modelon, he blends deep theoretical expertise with product leadership, particularly in graphical composition, symbolic model manipulation, and 3D simulation. He continues to iterate on accessible Modelica tooling through web apps like Modiator and Modicalc, reflecting a persistent focus on usability and instant simulation. A less obvious strength is his early advocacy for describing physical systems by equations and connections rather than signal flow, an approach that seeded modern multidisciplinary system modeling. Based in Malmö, Sweden, he remains active as author, lecturer, thesis advisor, inventor and consultant.
9 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Automatic Control, PhD Automatic Control at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund UniversityMaster’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology
Swedish, English
Github Skills (21)
simulation10
science10
modeling10
julia10
programming-language9
python9
machine-learning9
petsc8
root-finding8
hpc8
numerical8
simulate7
julialang7
equation7
modelica6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SimonBerggren/simonberggren.github.io
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:46 pushes in 3 months
ModiaSim/Modia.jl
Nov 2017 - Mar 2022
Modeling and simulation of multidomain engineering systems
Contributions:1 review, 102 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 4 months
pythonmodeling-and-simulationsimulationengineeringmodeling
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