Patrick Zulian
Postdoctoral Researcher at USI Università della Svizzera italiana
Ticino, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPatrick Zulian is a computational scientist and postdoctoral researcher with 11 years of experience specializing in domain decomposition, finite element methods, and high-performance algorithms for multi-physics simulations. Based in Ticino, Switzerland, he leads and co-leads computational projects at USI and UniDistance Suisse, developing scalable C++ libraries in collaboration with CSCS and contributing backend HPC improvements to the widely used MFEM library. His work blends deep algorithmic research with practical software engineering—he implemented mass-matrix assembly and solver controls for ParMortarAssembler while adapting code to Moonolith—enabling large-scale, parallel numerical simulations. Patrick pairs a PhD in Computational Science with teaching and outreach experience, and has applied his coordination skills in non-academic settings such as Swiss Army crisis response. Colleagues describe him as a meticulous developer-researcher who moves theoretical advances into production-grade tools for the scientific computing community.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computational Science, Master’s Degree, Computational Science at USI Università della Svizzera italiana
English, Italian, German
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Github Skills (11)
simulations10
simulation10
el10
c-language10
hpc10
f10
parallel-computing10
cprogramming-language10
linear-algebra9
latex6
gnuplot6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mfem/mfem
Feb 2017 - Apr 2022
Lightweight, general, scalable C++ library for finite element methods
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & HPC Engineer
Back-end Developer & HPC EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 80 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Patrick's commits primarily focus on refactoring and extending the `ParMortarAssembler` class within the MFEM library, a general-purpose finite element method library. Their work involves integrating and adapting the code to work with a new version of a related library called `moonolith`. The user also implemented key functionality, including adding mass matrix assembly, and increased control over the solver iterations. The user's contributions relate to the development of high-performance computing capabilities to support numerical simulations, as well as to fixing code and addressing merge conflicts.
c-plus-plusfinitefemamrc-library
zulianp/sfem
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Simple FEM
Contributions:3 reviews, 33 PRs, 326 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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