Petr Cagas
R&D at Moravian Instruments
Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPetr Cagas is an R&D-focused computational plasma physicist and research software engineer with over a decade of experience developing and applying kinetic and fluid simulation tools for space propulsion, fusion, and plasma–material interactions. He was a lead developer of the Gkeyll simulation framework and creator of the Postgkyl post-processing suite, combining numerical methods expertise (discontinuous Galerkin, continuum kinetics, Fokker–Planck) with practical CPU/GPU software development in C, Python, and Lua. His career spans academia and applied R&D roles at Virginia Tech, the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding, and Moravian Instruments, and includes 14 publications—seven as first author—and active peer review for Physics of Plasmas. Beyond research, he is an experienced science communicator and mentor who organizes conferences, volunteers in STEM outreach, and brings an unusual blend of production-grade coding and public-facing presentation skills to translate complex plasma science into usable software and accessible stories.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechMaster's degree, Physics of Surfaces and Ionized Media, Master's degree, Physics of Surfaces and Ionized Media at Charles University in Prague
Czech, English, German
Github Skills (31)
ansible-collections10
vms10
barrage9
python8
infrastructure8
dft8
golang8
computational-science7
fourier-transform7
density-functional-theory7
materials-informatics7
string-formatting7
fenics7
ssh6
database6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ammarhakim/postgkyl
Jan 2017 - Feb 2023
Postprocessing tool for Gkeyll 1.0 and 2.0 data
Contributions:2 releases, 11 reviews, 508 commits in 6 years 1 month
postprocessingpython
pcagas/mala
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Materials Learning Algorithms. A framework for machine learning materials properties from first-principles data.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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