Stefan Fürtinger
Lead Developer Scientific Software, IT at Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Fürtinger is a Lead Developer of Scientific Software with nine years of experience building high-performance research tools for large-scale systems neuroscience at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute. Trained as an applied mathematician with a PhD-level background in numerical mathematics and modeling, he specializes in HPC, algorithmic design, and computational neuroscience, bridging rigorous theory and production-grade research software. He has held roles from postdoc to principal research scientist and run an independent consulting practice, giving him both academic depth and practical delivery experience. Stefan is known for designing scalable analysis pipelines for multimodal brain data and optimizing them for HPC environments—a blend that helps labs turn complex mathematical models into reproducible, high-throughput workflows. Based in Frankfurt, he brings hands-on coding and systems expertise to multidisciplinary neuroscience teams and often translates numerical methods into efficient, parallel implementations.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Matura, Matura at Bischöfliches GymnasiumDoktorat, Mathematik, Doktorat, Mathematik at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
English, German
Github Skills (79)
computational-neuroscience10
python10
toolbox10
neuroscience10
asynchronous10
matlab9
cluster-computing9
parallel9
eve9
pose-estimation9
conda9
image-registration9
image-segmentation9
esi9
multiclass-classification8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
esi-neuroscience/slurmfun
Jul 2020 - Nov 2025
MATLAB tools to submit jobs into SLURM
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 3 PRs in 5 years 5 months
slurmmatlabcluster-computingsubmithpc
pantaray/Analytic-Tools
Feb 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:68 commits, 47 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
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