Robert Schade

HPC Expert Computational Physics And Quantum Chemistry

Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Robert Schade is an HPC expert focused on computational physics and quantum chemistry with 7+ years of experience bridging algorithmic research and high-performance implementations. Based at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, he drives exascale-ready electronic-structure and ab-initio molecular dynamics work, including FPGA-accelerated electron-repulsion integral compression and efforts to scale CP2K to hundreds of millions of atoms. His publications span IEEE, Phys. Rev. Research and Parallel Computing, reflecting a blend of numerical methods, hardware-aware optimisation and quantum-classical hybrid approaches for noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Trained with a PhD in Physics from Göttingen, he pairs deep theoretical grounding with hands-on system-level engineering. An unusual strength is his cross-cutting fluency in both domain science and emerging hardware (FPGAs, exascale systems), enabling practical breakthroughs rather than purely theoretical advances.
code7 years of coding experience
bookDoktor (Ph.D.), Physics, Doktor (Ph.D.), Physics at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Github Skills (30)

simulation10
quantum-chemistry10
linux10
paw10
modular9
assembly9
describe9
python9
x869
likwid9
benchmarking9
hpc9
instrumentation9
armv89
profiling9

Programming languages (7)

JuliaC++CPHPFortranPythonCuda

Github contributions (5)

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pc2/cp2k

May 2019 - Sep 2023

Quantum chemistry and solid state physics software package
Contributions:7 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 5 months
physicschemistryquantum-computingsolid-state-physicssolid-state
pc2/pqdts

Mar 2024 - Oct 2025

Contributions:4 releases, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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