Radovan Bast

I am a theoretical chemist turned research software engineer.

I write research software and teach programming to researchers and lead the CodeRefinery project and am involved in building the community of Nordic research software engineers.

I work at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway as part of the Norwegian e-infrastructure for research and education and lead the High Performance Computing Group and the Research Software Engineering Group at UiT.

Earlier, I have worked at the Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques in Toulouse, and PDC and Theoretical Chemistry and Biology in Stockholm.

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Projects

CodeRefinery

We teach all the essential tools which are usually skipped in academic education so everyone can make full use of software, computing, and data with focus on reusability, reproducibility, and openness.

Research software engineering group at UiT

We want to help all researchers and students at UiT to develop and improve their research software. This can span from simple R or Python scripts to complex GPU enabled software packages.

Nordic research software engineers

Co-building the community of Nordic research software engineers, and networking with fantastic people.

Sonar

Tool to profile usage of HPC resources by regularly probing processes.

TMS location

Code to visualize and locate points for trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

numgrid

Numgrid is a library that produces numerical integration grid for molecules based on atom coordinates, atom types, and basis set information. This library provides Rust and Python bindings.

Polygons

Fast points-in-polygon test and distances to polygons.

Tromsø paragliding

Info about Tromso paragliding weather/areas for new/visiting pilots.

More projects ...

Small things I learned recently: https://github.com/bast/til