Nicolas Schmidt
Postdoctoral Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Schmidt is a postdoctoral researcher with 10 years of experience applying software and detector expertise to jet physics and electromagnetic-probe measurements at major U.S. labs, currently at LANL after a postdoc at ORNL. He combines hands-on detector simulation and R&D for the Electron-Ion Collider with core software development for large HEP collaborations, contributing backend improvements to widely used repositories such as sPHENIX coresoftware and ALICE’s AliPhysics. His work spans event evaluation trees, calorimeter processing, and calibration pipelines—bridging experimental analysis needs with robust simulation infrastructure. Trained with a PhD from Goethe-Universität and earlier degrees from Heidelberg, he brings both deep physics insight and practical code-level impact to experimental detector projects. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of improving data-processing primitives that directly accelerate analysis workflows across collaborations.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at Heidelberg UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. Main
English, German, French
Github Skills (10)
application-framework10
eventing10
analyse10
c-language10
physics10
cprogramming-language10
data-analysis10
data-processing9
simulation7
simulations7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alisw/AliPhysics
Sep 2015 - Sep 2022
ALICE Analysis Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 593 commits, 454 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicolas's contributions primarily involve modifying code related to the ALICE Analysis Repository, specifically in the context of the ALICE experiment's data analysis framework. The commits focus on fixing issues and implementing improvements related to temperature calibration factors and data processing pipelines in the PWG/EMCAL and PWGGA/GammaConv modules. The user's work includes adjusting code for ZNA multiplicity, implementing tracks in cluster QA trees, and integrating the use of a new test beam correction model.
physicspythoncernanalysisalice
sPHENIX-Collaboration/coresoftware
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
Our big core software repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the core software repository by implementing and modifying components related to event evaluation and data processing. Their work involved creating an event-based evaluation tree and adjusting calorimeter-related functionalities, including those for FHCAL, EHCAL and FEMC. Further contributions are seen in improvements to the event tree class. The user's changes impact the simulation and analysis infrastructure within the repository.
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