Samuel Poncé
Chercheur Qualifié F.R.S.-FNRS Professeur UCLouvain at ETSF
Wavre, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Poncé is a multidisciplinary researcher and professor at UCLouvain with over a decade of experience bridging first-principles materials science, computational physics, and software engineering. As a Chercheur qualifié F.R.S.-FNRS and former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow and Oxford postdoc, he develops and applies ab initio tools for electron-phonon interactions, carrier mobilities and superconductivity. He leads research at ETSF and contributes to high-impact open-source projects such as the widely used Wannier90 code, where he has implemented core Fortran features and robust build and automation workflows. Samuel combines deep theoretical work (DFPT, Allen-Heine-Cardona) with practical software craftsmanship, enabling predictive simulations for renewable energy materials and industrial collaborations. Colleagues value his ability to move between rigorous mathematical formalisms and production-ready scientific code, a skill reflected in both his publications and engineering contributions. Based in Belgium, he brings an uncommon mix of academic leadership, hands-on backend development, and cross-disciplinary curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
Civil engineering in chemistry and materials science, Materials Sciences, Civil engineering in chemistry and materials science, Materials Sciences at Université catholique de Louvain
French, English, Dutch
Github Skills (5)
fortran10
condensed-matter-physics10
wan10
build-automation10
openmpi9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wannier-developers/wannier90
Sep 2016 - Nov 2019
Official repository of the Wannier90 code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:19 commits, 23 PRs, 12 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Samuel contributed to the core codebase, implementing features and fixing bugs within the Wannier90 code. Their work involved modifying Fortran code, specifically related to pw2wannier and Hamiltonian modules, indicating a focus on the backend aspects of the project. They also introduced a new feature for printing bvec, which is crucial for calculating velocities and integrated build system configurations, showcasing experience in automation, testing, and building processes. Further, the user updated and maintained the build configurations for different compilers and environments.
wannier90condensed-matter-physicswannierwannier-functions
sponce24/aiida-abinit
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 33 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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