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 (107)
computational-neuroscience10
toolbox10
pose10
forge10
bids10
neurons10
electrophysiology10
scale10
neuroscience10
esi10
image-registration10
user-friendly10
pose-estimation10
neuroimaging10
matlab9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
esi-neuroscience/slurmfun
Jul 2020 - Apr 2025
MATLAB tools to submit jobs into SLURM
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 2 PRs in 4 years 9 months
slurmmatlabcluster-computingsubmithpc
esi-neuroscience/acme
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Asynchronous Computing Made ESI
Contributions:18 releases, 16 reviews, 269 commits in 2 years 2 months
pythonasynchronousasyncioesicomputing
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