Patricia Ternes
Research Software Engineer Manager at University of Leeds
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPatricia Ternes is a Research Software Engineer Manager at the University of Leeds with nine years of experience bridging theoretical physics and high-performance research computing. She holds a PhD in Condensed Matter Physics and has transitioned her expertise from nanoscale fluid behaviour to modelling emergence in spatio-social systems and urban dynamics. Patricia leads the Research Computing team, supporting HPC, cloud workflows, and computational mechanics research while mentoring researchers to turn complex models into reproducible, high-impact software. Her background includes developing agent-based simulations with real-time data assimilation and acting as PI on Data Study Group projects in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute. Comfortable teaching as well as technical leadership, she combines academic rigour with practical software engineering to accelerate research outcomes. Colleagues describe her as someone who translates deep theory into scalable code and robust research infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado em Física, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Mestrado em Física, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaDoutorado, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Doutorado, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
English, Spanish
Github Skills (55)
network-analysis10
agent-based-modeling10
reconciliation10
kalman-filter10
agent10
orange10
agent-based-simulation10
particle-filter10
ecology8
jupyter-book7
yaml6
css6
python6
data-wrangling5
jupyterlab-extension5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
patricia-ternes/patricia-ternes.github.io
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Urban-Analytics/dust
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
Data Assimilation for Agent-Based Models - A research project at the University of Leeds, funded by the European Research Council
Contributions:32 commits, 3 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 5 months
assimilationorangeagent-basedagentagent-based-modeling
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.