Maxim Yurkin
CNRS Researcher at Elsevier
Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, France
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Top SchoolMaxim Yurkin is a CNRS researcher with 17 years of experience developing rigorous electromagnetic simulation methods, notably advancing the discrete dipole approximation and authoring the ADDA code for light scattering by arbitrarily shaped particles. His work bridges theory and application, from nanoparticles and atmospheric aerosols to biomedical cytometry, where he devised parametric inverse-scattering methods used to extract cell characteristics from scanning flow cytometry data. He teaches inverse problems, serves as an associate editor for JQSRT, and has held visiting positions that extended DDA to nonlocal dielectrics and X-ray diffraction simulations. Based in Normandy and trained with dual PhDs in computer science and biophysics, he combines deep computational expertise with practical instrumentation-facing solutions — a rare mix that enables both high-performance code and experimentally validated inverse methods.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Biophysics, PhD, Biophysics at Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and CombustionPhillips AcademyHigh school, High school at School for Physics and Mathematics of Novosibirsk State UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of AmsterdamMSc, Physics, With honors (both MSc and BSc), average grade 5.0 (out of 5), MSc, Physics, With honors (both MSc and BSc), average grade 5.0 (out of 5) at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
Russian, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (23)
simulation10
opencl10
light-scattering10
citations10
simulator10
css10
dda10
mpi10
csl10
c9910
bibliography10
approximation10
creative-commons10
citation10
render9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
myurkin/adda
Nov 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 5 months
adda-team/adda
Nov 2008 - Jan 2023
ADDA - light scattering simulator based on the discrete dipole approximation
Contributions:13 releases, 21 reviews, 354 commits in 14 years 4 months
opticsdiscrete-dipole-approximationmpilightc99
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