Kjartan Wikfeldt
Deputy Director at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolKjartan Wikfeldt is an experienced R&D leader and Deputy Director at RISE with a decade of expertise in high-performance computing, AI services, and digital research infrastructures. He has built and led national and international HPC programs—including directing ENCCS—bridging academia, industry and public administration to translate advanced compute capabilities into practical research and innovation. Trained as a physicist (PhD) with a research background in molecular modeling and quantum effects, he combines deep domain science with hands-on operational leadership. Known for an outgoing, collaborative style, he excels at convening diverse stakeholders and shaping training and strategy to grow cross-functional ecosystems. A goal-oriented connector, he often serves as the practical link between cutting‑edge HPC/AI technology and the users who benefit from it.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at Stockholm University
Icelandic, Swedish, Urdu, English, German
Github Skills (120)
forking10
sphinx-doc10
python10
testing10
data-wrangling10
data-visualization10
versioning10
git10
stable10
tricks10
jupyterlab-extension10
code-documentation10
version-control10
jupyter-notebook10
documentation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
PDC-support/hpc-intro
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
Introduction to PDC and HPC, including tips and tricks
Contributions:201 commits, 6 PRs, 104 pushes in 1 year 11 months
cpppdctrickstips-and-trickshpc
coderefinery/reproducible-research
Nov 2017 - Mar 2022
Reproducible research - Preparing code to be usable by you and others in the future
Contributions:4 reviews, 239 commits, 57 PRs in 4 years 4 months
carpentry-lessonreproducible-researchreproducible
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