Markus Blatt
Chief Executive Officer at Opm-Op AS
Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMarkus Blatt is an applied mathematician and CEO with 13+ years of experience building high-performance scientific computing and technical simulation software. A core DUNE developer since 2004, he specializes in parallel linear algebra solvers and scalable algebraic multigrid methods that have run across all 294,912 cores of the JUGENE Blue Gene/P. He runs a consultancy producing bespoke simulation software, offering DUNE, C++ and HPC training, and has commercialized his expertise as co-founder and CEO of OPM-OP AS. His background blends deep academic research—PhD-level work on robust AMG and DG discretizations—with practical engineering for supercomputers. Notably, he combines hands-on kernel-level solver design with client-facing training and support, making him both a tool-builder and an educator in the HPC community. Based in Bavaria, he continues to support the OPM and DUNE ecosystems while delivering production-ready simulation solutions.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Mathematics, Diplom, Mathematics at Heidelberg UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at Technische Universität DresdenMathematics, Mathematics at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergPhd, Mathematics, Phd, Mathematics at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergThe imaginary school of modern lifeComputational Science and Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering at ETH Zürich
English, German
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Github Skills (78)
json-parser10
python10
simulator10
cmake10
differentiation10
terraform10
steady-state10
octave10
regression-testing10
infrastructure10
eclipse10
ansi-c10
reservoir10
sparse-matrix10
dune10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
blattms/opm-material
Sep 2015 - Apr 2022
Provides thermodynamic relations, capillary pressure curves, etc.
Contributions:18 pushes, 45 branches in 6 years 8 months
relationseulerpressurehydrodynamicsmodeling-tool
OPM/opm-reference-manual
Feb 2024 - May 2026
Contributions:5 releases, 148 reviews, 315 PRs in 2 years 3 months
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