Matthias Lochbrunner
Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
City of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthias Lochbrunner is a research engineer at Google DeepMind with a decade of experience applying physics and math to hard engineering problems, from RL for physics to projects like AlphaCode and Gemini Thinking. He blends a strong academic grounding (MSc in Physics from TUM) with hands-on software work across 3D graphics, physical simulation, computer vision for urban automated driving, and web applications. His early work at the Max Planck Institute significantly sped up real‑time beam tracing, demonstrating a talent for squeezing performance from complex scientific code. Comfortable moving between research and product contexts, he has also led a startup effort and taught advanced physics topics, bringing both entrepreneurial and pedagogical instincts to engineering teams. Based in London, he maintains an active portfolio of independent projects that reveal a curiosity for diverse technical domains beyond his DeepMind work.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Physik, Master of Science (MS) Physik at Technical University of MunichBachelor's degree (not finished) Philosophie, Bachelor's degree (not finished) Philosophie at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
918reputation
80kreached
15answers
20questions
Github Skills (174)
node-http10
python10
multithreading10
energy10
ffi10
javascript10
docker-compose10
node-opcua10
react-component10
flow-based-programming10
golang10
typescript10
binding10
editors10
docker10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lochbrunner/vscode-hdf5-viewer
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Displays HDF5 files in VS code
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 11 months
visual-studio-codedisplaysvscode-extensionvscodehdf5
lochbrunner/react-flow-editor
Aug 2018 - Aug 2021
React component which enables creating flow editors with ease
Contributions:60 commits, 14 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 years
react-componentreactflow-based-programmingscsstypescript
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