Gustavo Rondina

PhD candidate at Institute of Chemistry of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, in Germany. Close to conclusion, immediate availability for a new position. This position allows me to leverage my experience in computer science and computational physics to tackle challenging and current problems in computational chemistry in general, and in molecular dynamics simulations in particular. The principal objects of my work are soft matter systems and their dynamical properties.

System administrator of the in-house resources and HPC Linux clusters of the Theoretical Physical Chemistry Group. I was responsible for cluster maintenance & monitoring, setup of job submission systems using Slurm, torque and OpenPBS, compilation and installation of scientific software to support the research in the group, user support, among other tasks.

During four semesters I was responsible for the Quantum Chemistry portion of the exercise sessions within the graduate-level course Computer Applications to Chemistry. My tasks included developing quantum chemistry software to teach students, as well as preparing and applying exercises and projects, reviewing and grading reports, preparing and grading exams, presenting further details that were left out of the main lectures, etc.

Graduate Researcher working on a project at USP with Dr. Juarez da Silva's group. I worked with global optimization algorithms applied to transition metal nanoparticles coupled with ab-initio methods in order to identify ground state structures.

Main roles were in system administration and software engineerig. Position held at the Chemistry Institute of São Carlos (University of São Paulo) supported by a Technical Training Level 3 (TT-3) FAPESP Fellowship. My role in this project included providing assistance in computer cluster administration and writing analysis software for data generated in computational physics simulations.

Research assistant working on the field of computational condensed matter physics under supervision of Dr. Juarez L. F. Da Silva at the Institute of Physics of Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo. The main project was the characterization of structural, electronic, and energetic properties of ethanol, water, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen in gas phase using density functional theory.

I worked at TU-Darmstadt with the group of Prof. Florian Müller-Plathe developing molecular dynamics simulation software in C, C++ and CUDA, aimed at running on massively parallel environments (NVIDIA GPUs).

Undergraduate project focusing on software testing. The main goal was to assess the feasibility of applying structural software testing techniques to mobile code, i.e., code which is able to migrate back and forth between the nodes of a heterogeneous network environment.

Specializing in Computational Chemistry and Molecular Simulations.

My MSc dissertation and project at USP was supervised by Dr. rer. nat. Juarez L. F. da Silva within the Quantum Theory of Nanomaterials group (QTNano). During my tenure with Dr. Da Silva's group I worked with global optimization algorithms applied to atomic clusters and nanoparticles.

Degree not pursued due to a chance of an internship abroad. Concluded over 1,700 hours of lectures in physics, mathematics and modelling.

Final course project comprised the development of an automated instrumentation tool for software testing of code written in the Object Pascal programming language. Focus on Software Engineering.