Alex Hampel, Ph.D.

About Me

I am an HPC specialist and scientific software developer at VASP Software GmbH, developing state-of-the-art materials simulation software. Much of my recent work focuses on porting code to GPUs (AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel) and on HPC performance optimization. Moreover, I am an active contributor to the TRIQS software library triqs.github.io, a powerful toolbox for research in quantum systems, and maintainer of the DFT+DMFT code solid_dmft. Previously, I worked at the Flatiron Institute in New York as a software scientist developing quantum embedding techniques for correlated quantum matter. I obtained my Ph.D. in materials science from ETH Zurich in 2019, where I investigated quantum materials exhibiting strong electron correlation effects using a combination of DFT and DMFT ab-initio simulation techniques. Check my github page for more information about ongoing software projects.