Tomas Polakovic
Assistant Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTomas Polakovic is a condensed matter physicist with eight years of hands-on experience in thin film deposition, materials characterization, and superconducting detector technology, currently serving as Assistant Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory. His progression from research assistant to Maria Goeppert Mayer Fellow reflects deep expertise in low-temperature devices and experimental platform development for quantum and superconducting applications. Trained with a PhD from Drexel and MS/BS degrees in solid state physics from Univerzita Komenského, he combines rigorous academic foundations with sustained national-lab research. Notably, Tomas has spent his entire professional career at Argonne, translating fundamental materials science into deployable detector technologies and cross-disciplinary collaborations. He is based in Chicago and brings both experimental leadership and a track record of mentoring junior researchers on complex instrumentation projects.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Drexel UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Solid State Physics, Master of Science - MS, Solid State Physics at Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
Github Skills (75)
gsl8
regression8
bit8
differentiation7
matrix7
opencl7
gpgpu7
statistics7
cuda7
deterministic7
maths7
fft7
fabrication7
xyz7
owl6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tpolakovic/SimpleQuantum
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 releases, 45 commits, 22 PRs in 3 months
band-structuretight-bindingsolid-state-physics
tpolakovic/tpolakovic.github.io
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Home of the A Bit Correlated website
Contributions:66 commits, 2 PRs, 79 pushes in 3 years 4 months
bit
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