User:Peter Larsson (PDC)

Peter Larsson (NSC) Application expert in Computational materials science, 20% full time equivalent, financed by SeRC/SNIC Is active No. General activities Application support Testing & Quality Assurance Benchmarking Other activities Development of ab initio workflow tools Coordinating technical documentation at NSC Office Room 273, House G Linköpings universitet SE-581 83 Linköping

Quick facts

• PhD in Physics (ab initio calculations) from Uppsala University in 2009.
• Works at NSC since May 2011.
• Note: Peter effectively retired as application expert since 2015. He is now partner manager at NSC, where he develops NSC’s external collaborations with non-academic customers, such as the Swedish Met Office (SMHI) and Saab.

Expertise

• VASP
• C++/Python programming

Blog

I publish some of my findings from benchmarking and testing on my blog at NSC:

http://www.nsc.liu.se/~pla

Projects

• Test suite for VASP
• Comparative study of major ab initio software for materials science