Robert Braun
Associate Professor
Greater Linköping Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolRobert Braun is an associate professor and researcher with 16 years' experience in distributed system simulation, specializing in fluid power, mechatronics, and co-simulation. He developed and validated multi-threaded, coupled simulation methods during his PhD and has since advanced contact mechanics solvers, asynchronous co-simulation techniques, and FMI-based model exchange in close industry–academia collaborations. His work blends numerical method development with user-focused graphical interfaces and practical real-time/HIL applications, reflecting both software craftsmanship and mechanical-engineering rigor. At Linköping University and SICS he introduced and implemented transmission line element (TLM) approaches and helped adopt the FMI standard in research software. He is also an engaged educator and supervisor who translates complex simulation research into teachable tools and student projects. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges deep theoretical insight with pragmatic software solutions for industrial simulation challenges.
16 years of coding experience
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering at Tekniska högskolan vid Linköpings universitet
Swedish, English, German
Github Skills (37)
fluid10
simulation10
simulation-modeling10
python10
simulator10
modeling-tool10
ssp10
simulation-framework10
agent-based-modeling10
industrial10
power-systems10
fmi10
sbml10
openmodelica10
co-simulation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
robbr48/fmi4c
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
fmi4c is a C library that enables import of Functional Mockup Units (FMUs) from FMI 1.0, FMI 2.0 and FMI 3.0.
Contributions:3 releases, 14 reviews, 107 commits in 9 months
unitsfmimockupc-library
robbr48/OMSimulator-testsuite
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Test suite for OMSimulator
Contributions:105 pushes, 78 branches in 9 months
suite
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