Ondrej Chvala
Senior Research Scientist at The University of Texas at Austin
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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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.
10 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 (38)
serpent10
sensor9
temperature-sensor9
monte-carlo9
parser8
python8
gtk8
parsing8
octoprint8
qt8
matplotlib7
lattice7
msr7
cnc-controller7
plugin7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ondrejch/lattice-LEU-MSR
Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
Scripts for LEU MSR lattice analysis
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 3 years
msrlattice
ondrejch/2017-MSRE-paper
Aug 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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