Curriculum Vitae

Current and previous employment

Senior scientist at Oceanbox, Tromsø, Norway

Managed the CodeRefinery project with a 50% position funded be the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration

Senior engineer at the High Performance Computing Group, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
HPC group lead
Research software engineering (RSE) group lead

IT Partner Tromsø AS, Tromsø, Norway
40% position developing software for oceanography

Application expert at the PDC Center for High Performance Computing
Researcher at the Division of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Researcher (CNRS CR2; Section "Atomes et molécules - Optique et lasers - Plasmas chauds)
CNRS/ Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Post-doc with Prof. Dr. K. Ruud (Theoretical and computational chemistry)
CTCC/ University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Mentoring and supervising

Lead the HPC group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway: Team of 12 engineers

Lead the research software engineering (RSE) group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway: Team of 5 engineers

Co-supervised 1 master student (Jano Minárik)
Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia

Supervised 2 research fellows (Juliana Murillo, Cristina A. Barboza) at CNRS/ Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Supervised 2 research fellows (Franklin Ferraro, Shubhrodeep Pathak) at CTCC/ University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Other relevant professional experiences

International Council of RSE Associations
Member

Nordic Research Software Engineers association
Board member

Nordic Research Software Engineers unconference
Organization

Nordic Research Software Engineers online get-together
Organisation and program committee

NeIC 2017 conference
Program committee deputy chair, website

Relativistic Effects in Heavy-Element Chemistry and Physics 2007 conference
Website, book of abstracts, and coordination

CDFT 2007 conference
Website, book of abstracts, and coordination

Education

PhD (theoretical chemistry)
Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Master ("Diplom" in chemistry)
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Research project with Prof. Dr. P. Schwerdtfeger (6 months)
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Fellowships, awards, and prizes

Professeur invité (invited research speaker) at the University of Lille, Lille, France

Award, Prix de thèse de la Division de Chimie Physique de la Société Française de Chimie 2008

Scholarship, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie: Kekulé Scholarship (24 months)

Scholarship, Conseil Régional d'Alsace: Bourse Régionale de Recherche (12 months)

Books

Co-authored the CMake Cookbook

Edited the book series 'European Summerschool in Quantum Chemistry'

Teaching experience

4-day course Reproducible research software development using Python for the UiT Machine Learning Group (FYS 8805)

2-day course Python Progression: Moving Beyond the Basics at the Hylleraas School 2025 in Norway

6-day FAIR data visualization PhD course at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Delivered a 3-day workshop Reproducible research software development using Python in Aachen, Germany

Lecturer at the PDC Summer School 2024 teaching "Research software engineering"

Lecturer at the European Light Field Imaging Workshop teaching a 3-session CodeRefinery mini-workshop

Taught "Data visualization" as part of a week-long course "Introduction to Python in the Life Sciences Course" at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Co-organized and taught over 30 CodeRefinery workshops in research software development tools

Lecturer at the PRESIMAL Autumn Research School in Artificial Intelligence Methods in Medical Imaging 2023 teaching "Reproducible and collaborative research software engineering"

Lecturer at the PDC Summer School 2023 teaching "Research software engineering".

Taught a 3-day workshop "Data visualization using Python" at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Taught "Data visualization" as part of a week-long course on scientific writing at UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Organized monthly Python 'open mic' events

Organized a two-day Software Carpentry course in Tromsø, Norway

Organized a three-day Python course in Tromsø, Norway

Organized a three-day Python course in Tromsø, Norway

Organized the Scientific software development toolbox course, Stockholm, Sweden

Instructor at a Software Carpentry workshop, Stockholm, Sweden

Organized the Scientific software development toolbox course, Stockholm, Sweden

Tutor and lecturer at the course "Writing parallel applications using MPI", Stockholm, Sweden

Tutor and lecturer at the High-Performance Computing Summer School, Stockholm, Sweden

Tutor at a Software Carpentry workshop, Stockholm, Sweden

Tutor at the Parallel Programming Workshop, Stuttgart, Germany

Lecturer at the "Ecole Développement Logiciel en Chimie Quantique", Paris, France

Exercise leader at the European Summer School in Quantum Chemistry

Gave courses in theoretical chemistry and programming at Ph.D. and Master levels