Jonathan Schilling
Co-Founder And Head Of Labs at Proxima Fusion
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Schilling is a physicist-turned-engineer and co-founder leading Proxima Fusion’s labs, applying nine years of hands-on experience in experimental and theoretical plasma physics to advance stellarator-based fusion. He earned a PhD working on the Wendelstein 7‑X, where he implemented a soft X‑ray tomography system and in-depth Bayesian inference for MHD equilibrium reconstruction—work published in Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion. Equally comfortable in hardware and software, Jonathan has built custom plasma experiments in his basement workshop and contributed to open-source tooling by hardening an ANTLR Fortran77 grammar to better parse legacy scientific code. His background spans electrical and mechanical engineering as well as software development for scientific instrumentation, giving him a rare blend of lab-level experiment design and production-grade code craftsmanship. Based in Munich, he combines research rigor with entrepreneurial drive to turn fusion diagnostics and models into deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor (Ph.D.), Physics, Doktor (Ph.D.), Physics at Universität GreifswaldMaster of Science - MS, Physics, 1.1, Master of Science - MS, Physics, 1.1 at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Github Skills (4)
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antlr10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
antlr/grammars-v4
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Grammars written for ANTLR v4; expectation that the grammars are free of actions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on adapting and improving the Fortran77 grammar within the ANTLR framework. This involved parsing and refactoring code to support new features and correct errors, particularly related to BLAS-3.8.0. The contributions included fixing carriage return removal, merging comments, removing old code, and applying suggestions from code reviews. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the parser's robustness and compatibility with various Fortran77 dialects.
grammarparser-generatorabstract-syntax-treeexpectationgrammars
PrincetonUniversity/SPEC
May 2019 - Nov 2022
The Stepped-Pressure Equilibrium Code, an advanced MRxMHD equilibrium solver.
Contributions:12 reviews, 610 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 7 months
mrxmhdopenfoamnuclear-fusionsteppedequilibrium
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