Timo Heister
Professor at Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarTimo Heister is a professor of applied mathematics with 17 years of experience specializing in the finite element method and scientific computing, currently based at Clemson University. He combines academic leadership with hands-on software engineering, contributing backend work to major scientific projects such as deal.II and the Spack package manager to streamline complex scientific workflows. His contributions span code maintenance, test updates, and packaging of scientific libraries (including ASPECT and dealii-parameter-gui), reflecting a focus on reproducible, portable scientific software. He also improves developer experience through clear technical writing, having refined documentation and examples for the Taskflow C++ task-parallel library. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous research with practical tooling that accelerates computational science.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
German
Github Skills (16)
package-manager-tool10
finite-element-analysis10
build-tools10
c-language10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
numerical-methods10
package-management10
documentation10
testing10
parallel-computing9
cmake9
scientific-computing8
python8
hpc7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dealii/dealii
Sep 2008 - Jan 2023
The development repository for the deal.II finite element library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 1133 reviews, 3664 commits in 14 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Timo updated existing tests to ensure correct behavior. The primary focus of the commits seems to be on maintaining existing code and refactoring existing functionality. The code changes appear to be related to the core functionality of the deal.II finite element library.
dealmultiphysicsc-plus-pluscomputational-sciencefinite-elements
spack/spack
Jun 2018 - Jan 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Timo primarily contributed to the Spack package manager by creating and updating package definitions for various software libraries. Their work involved defining package versions, dependencies, and build configurations, including packages for dealii-parameter-gui, ASPECT, and libdap4. They added new versions of ASPECT and updated its development branch information. These contributions are essential for expanding the Spack package library and supporting scientific computing workflows.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
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