Tristan Bereau
Professor Of Physics at Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolTristan Bereau is a Professor of Physics at Heidelberg University with 15 years of experience bridging computational biophysics and soft-matter theory. He holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon and a physics degree from EPFL, and specializes in algorithm development, large-scale data sampling and analysis, and UNIX/Linux systems administration. Tristan is an active contributor to the open-source molecular simulation package ESPResSo, where he enhanced the Lennard-Jones interaction with a soft-core LJGEN_SOFTCORE feature and expanded its parameterization. His work blends rigorous theoretical modeling with practical software engineering, enabling more flexible and efficient simulations of complex soft-matter systems. Based in Heidelberg, he combines academic leadership with hands-on code contributions that improve tools widely used by the simulation community.
16 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Physics, Bachelor, Physics at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausannePhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (8)
cpp10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
molecular-simulation10
cplus10
scientific-computing10
dynamics10
physics9
tcl9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
espressomd/espresso
Apr 2013 - Jul 2016
The ESPResSo package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tristan made several contributions to the ESPResSo package, primarily focused on enhancing the Lennard-Jones Generic (LJGEN) interaction potential. Their work involved adding the LJGEN_SOFTCORE feature, which introduces a soft-core modification to the potential, and expanding its parameter options. This involved modifications to multiple source files, including those related to Tcl scripting, core interaction data, and the main LJGEN implementation, to support the new functionality. They also corrected output formatting in the Tcl interface.
physicssoft-matterpythonmolecular-dynamicsscientific-computing
tbereau/plumx
Aug 2011 - Sep 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 3 years 1 month
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