Ondrej Chvala
Senior Research Scientist at The University of Texas at Austin
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolOndrej Chvala is a Senior Research Scientist with 11 years of experience blending nuclear reactor physics, molten salt reactor development, and high-performance computing for digital-twin and radiation-transport applications. He has a PhD in nuclear and particle physics and a strong experimental pedigree from PHENIX at BNL/CERN, where he worked on detector R&D and soft-hadronic data analysis. Comfortable across C++, Python, Fortran and Linux system administration, he also runs HPC clusters and has advised on licensing and computational chemistry aspects of reactor projects. Beyond academia, he founded and operated a DIY wireless community NGO, demonstrating hands-on network design, mentoring, and practical deployment of MAN/WAN solutions. Known for translating complex physics into production-ready simulation tools, he combines deep scientific rigor with pragmatic engineering and operations experience.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
none, Finances, none, Finances at Prague University of Economics and Businesshigh school, Mathematics, Physics, high school, Mathematics, Physics at Gymnasium Wilhelma Piecka / ZborovskaPhD, nuclear and particle physics, PhD, nuclear and particle physics at Charles University
English
Github Skills (30)
monte-carlo10
serpent10
computational-physics9
octoprint9
parser9
sensor9
temperature-sensor9
python8
openmc8
gtk8
enclosure8
plugin8
msr8
lattice8
qt7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ondrejch/DAQ-DT5781
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:147 pushes, 2 branches, 13 tags in 8 months
ondrejch/RSICC-compliance
Nov 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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