Peter Råback
Product Manager, Elmer Software at CSC - IT Center for Science
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Råback is a product manager and hands-on developer with 11 years steering and contributing to Elmer, the widely used open-source finite element software maintained by CSC. He combines deep academic training in computational physics and engineering physics (D.Sc. and M.Sc.) with practical expertise modernizing electrostatics and magnetodynamics solvers, improving performance, and extending FSI capabilities. Based in Helsinki, he coordinates development while directly implementing solver enhancements, new boundary conditions, test cases, and library optimizations for electromagnetic and coupled problems. His work reflects a balance of product stewardship and low-level numerical engineering, making sophisticated computational tools more efficient and usable for researchers and engineers. Notably, he has repeatedly improved the core Elmer/FEM repository, contributing to a project relied upon by the scientific computing community.
11 years of coding experience
D.Sc. (Tech.), Physics (Computational Physics, Mathematics), D.Sc. (Tech.), Physics (Computational Physics, Mathematics) at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
Github Skills (9)
fortran10
finite-element-analysis10
el10
f10
linear-algebra9
computational-physics8
numerical-integration7
cprogramming-language5
c-language5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ElmerCSC/elmerfem
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
Official git repository of Elmer FEM software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 2613 commits, 308 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributes to the development and maintenance of the Elmer/FEM software, specifically focusing on the electrostatics and magnetodynamics modules. Their work involves modernizing existing solvers, enabling the computation of complex fields, and enhancing the performance and usability of the software. The user also introduced new boundary conditions and features for a more comprehensive FSI implementation and added test cases and improvements to the existing library routines for the same. Furthermore, the user has worked on improving the efficiency of the software, especially for solving electromagnetic and coupled problems.
git-repositoryelectromagneticsmpifemacoustics
raback/FEA-compare
Feb 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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