Summary
Lukas Breitwieser is a Research Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance, scalable simulation and distributed systems, currently based in the Geneva area and working at CERN. As principal software engineer at the BioDynaMo project he has led the design and implementation of a modular, agent-based simulation engine focused on performance and scale, bridging simulation science and systems engineering. He combines hands-on production experience from long-term roles at CERN with academic research toward a Ph.D. at ETH Zurich, specializing in parallel, distributed, and heterogeneous computing. Lukas’s background spans industry-grade engineering and open interdisciplinary research, and he is comfortable moving between low-level performance optimization and architecting modular platforms. An interesting facet of his path is the blend of medical training and software/CS degrees, which informs his work on biologically motivated simulations.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine (did not complete), Doctor of Medicine (did not complete) at Medizinische Universität Graz
Master of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at Technische Universität Graz
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at ETH Zurich
English, German