Valmor De Almeida
Owner & Technical Lead at Cortix Tech
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolValmor De Almeida is an interdisciplinary technical leader and founder with 15 years of experience in multiscale modeling, transport phenomena, and high-performance simulation for energy, chemical and nuclear applications. As Owner & Technical Lead of Cortix Tech he builds unified computational ecosystems that couple physics-based simulation data with AI to make high-fidelity results transparent, reproducible, and production-ready. His career spans national labs and academia—senior R&D at Oak Ridge and faculty roles at UMass and University of Tennessee—where he translated atomistic to continuum theory into practical process and materials insights. Trained as a chemical engineer with a PhD from the University of Minnesota, he uniquely blends deep computational methods, parallel HPC expertise, and curriculum design to accelerate scientific innovation. Notably, he pairs long-run research across many length scales with startup-style productization of simulation workflows for research and industry.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Thermal Sciences (Mechanical Engineering), MSc Thermal Sciences (Mechanical Engineering) at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering at University of MinnesotaBS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at University of Brasilia (Brazil)
Github Skills (112)
scientific-publications10
fenics10
prediction-model10
simulation-modeling10
python10
pitch10
parallel-computing10
bug-reporting10
nonlinear-dynamics10
fourier-transform10
continuum10
electrophysiology10
chemistry10
latex10
interactive10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dpploy/cortix
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
Cortix is a Python library for network dynamics modeling and HPC simulation.
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 880 commits in 4 years 10 months
pythonpypidynamical-systemssimulationscipy
dpploy/engy-4350
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:166 commits, 144 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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