Kristian Knudsen
Sr. Technology Manager at RadiSurf
Berkeley, California, Denmark
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Top SchoolKristian Knudsen is a senior technology manager who combines a PhD in electrochemistry with a decade of hands-on R&D and leadership experience across academia and industry, including postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley and a visiting stint at MIT. He specializes in deconvoluting complex multi-parameter systems—failure analysis, interfacial degradation, and transport limitations—and translating mechanistic insight into technology strategy, IP, and scalable analytics. At RadiSurf he has progressed from application engineering to leading materials characterization and now R&D at the executive level, building metrology platforms, data architectures, and structured decision systems from scratch. Kristian is a pragmatic, data-driven leader who remains technically fluent at first-principles across chemistry, materials, and data infrastructure, and has authored open-source tooling adopted by a large user base. He has led international teams, managed scale-up and budgets, and even served as interim CEO maintaining delivery during restructuring—demonstrating rare fluency across science, product, and operations. Fluent in English and operating between Danish and global contexts, he is focused on helping deep-tech organizations scale R&D into a disciplined, outcome-oriented engine.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Graduate, Visiting Graduate at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Chemical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Chemical Engineering at Aalborg UniversityStudent Internship, Chemical Engineering, Student Internship, Chemical Engineering at The University of AkronTechnical University of Denmark
Danish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian
Github Skills (10)
electrochemistry10
battery10
analyzer9
electrical-engineering9
photonics9
simulator9
chemical-engineering9
simulations9
simulation9
python7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
kbknudsen/PyEIS
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
PyEIS: A Python-based Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy simulator and analyzer
Contributions:3 releases, 72 commits, 31 pushes in 2 months
chemical-engineeringpythonbatteryimpedancesimulations
kbknudsen/Electrochemistry
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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