Stephen Langer
Physicist at National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Langer is a physicist with over 10 years of professional experience (and decades at NIST) developing materials-science software in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division of the IT Laboratory. He leads the OOF project, creating tools that turn micrographs into finite-element models for virtual experiments on complex microstructures, bridging applied mathematics, computational physics, and practical materials research. His background includes theoretical and computational work on lipid bilayers from postdoctoral appointments at Simon Fraser and the University of Chicago, and a PhD in Physics from Cornell. Based in Gaithersburg, MD, he combines deep domain expertise with sustained open-tool development, enabling experimentalists to extract macroscopic behavior from microscopic images. An uncommon strength is his long-running focus on making advanced simulation workflows accessible to non-specialists through well-engineered code.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Cornell UniversityAB, Physics, AB, Physics at Princeton University
Github Skills (9)
opengl10
command-line10
3d10
macos9
ports9
macports7
swig7
cpp6
programming-language5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
snarkhunter/macports-ports
Jan 2022 - Feb 2026
The MacPorts ports tree
Contributions:19 pushes, 22 branches in 4 years 1 month
portsmacosmacports-portsmacports
usnistgov/OOF2
Oct 2015 - Jan 2023
Object Oriented for Finite Elements 2D version.
Contributions:1 release, 1514 commits, 1143 pushes in 7 years 5 months
elementsopenglfinite-elementsobject-orientedfinite
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