Benjamin Simmen

Experience

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  ETH Zurich

  Feb 2009 - Jun 2009

  Research Project

  Title: Parallel Calculation of Correlation Plots.This project focuses on the implementation of an interface to an external ab-initio quantum chemistry software package to perform CAS-SCF calculations on individual distortions of a chemical structure. Parallelization was achieved through the open-MPI library.

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  ETH Zurich

  Sept 2010 - Dec 2010

  Research Project

  Title: Development of a Quantum Chemistry Workflow Processing XML/CML.This project focuses on the development and implementation of a workflow automatizing and managing ab-initio calculations of a set of pre-defined chemical structures, using an external ab-initio quantum chemistry software package and SQL-database.

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  ETH Zurich

  Feb 2011 - Jun 2011

  Master Theisis

  Title: How Many Chiral Centers can Raman Optical Activity Spectroscopy Distinguish in a Molecule?Raman Optical Activity is a spectroscopic technique sensitive to the absolute configuration of individual chiral centers. This thesis is a theoretical study, focusing on the number of chiral centers which can be resolved using ab-initio quantum chemistry methods.

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  ETH Zurich

  Sept 2011 - Mar 2015

  Title: Developments for a Relativistic Four-Component Many-1/2 Fermion Theory.This thesis focuses on the development and implementation of a relativistic pre-Born--Oppenheimer theory in first quantization, based on the Dirac Hamiltonian. It extends the non-relativistic Schrödinger pre-Born--Oppenheimer framework, treating electrons and nuclei on equal footing in terms of the parametrization of the explicitly correlated trial wave functions. The problems of translational invariance and kinetic balance are addressed. Show less

  • PhD Student

    Jul 2011 - Mar 2015

  • Teaching Assistant

    Sept 2011 - Jun 2014
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  Netcetera - Quality Software Engineering

  Sept 2015 - Nov 2018

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Jan 2017 - Nov 2018

  • Software Engineer

    Sept 2015 - Dec 2016
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  Google

  Dec 2018 - now

  Software Engineer