Miguel Pardal
Teaching Assistant at Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolMiguel Pardal is a computational plasma physicist and software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently finishing a PhD in Engineering Physics while working as a Teaching Assistant at Instituto Superior Técnico. He co-developed and continues to maintain ZPIC, a lightweight C/Python Particle-In-Cell tool used worldwide for teaching, and contributed a high-frequency radiation module integrated into the OSIRIS PIC code. His PhD work extended that tool to GPUs and large supercomputers, dramatically accelerating X‑ray emission simulations and enabling more realistic studies of plasma-driven sources. Miguel blends hands-on high-performance coding with pedagogy, regularly bridging classroom needs and cutting‑edge research software. Based in Lisbon, he is an active member of the OSIRIS maintenance team, combining deep numerical physics knowledge with practical parallel and GPU implementation experience.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (69)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tecnico-sec/Firewall
Sep 2019 - Nov 2023
Firewall lab
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
tecnico-distsys/naming
Aug 2018 - May 2021
JAX-R wrapper library that emulates JNDI Naming interface with bind and lookup
Contributions:2 releases, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
jndibindemulatesnamingwrapper-library
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