Loïc Dumortier
Postdoctoral Researcher at German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolLoïc Dumortier is a postdoctoral researcher and recent PhD in Physical Chemistry/Physics who builds and validates machine-learning interatomic potentials to push molecular dynamics toward higher accuracy and efficiency. With eight years of research and engineering experience across academia and industry—including a PhD at Ghent University, internships at ILL/ESRF, and roles at IFP Energies nouvelles and DLR—he bridges chemistry, physics, and computer science to tackle computationally hard problems. Currently at the German Aerospace Center he helps define chemical use-cases for quantum computing, combining domain expertise with practical ML workflows. Known for moving projects from traditional simulation paradigms to data-driven models, he brings a rare mix of hands-on model development, validation rigor, and attention to experimental comparability.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at Ghent University
Dutch, English, French, German
Stackoverflow
609reputation
15kreached
32answers
2questions
Github Skills (32)
pip6
raspberry-pi6
cmd6
heroku6
command-prompt6
windows6
python6
static-ip-address6
terminal-application5
inkscape3
reproducible-research3
terminal-app2
machine-learning-models2
parallel2
markdown2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lcdumort/lcdumort.github.io
Nov 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
lcdumort/lcdumort
Nov 2021 - May 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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