
Alejandro Duran
Location
Basel-Stadt
Field of Study
Computational Physics
About
Physicist passionate about tech world!
I am a computational physicist. My daily work consists in solving problems, creating statistical and mathematical models and implementing them into computer algorithms. I have experience working with databases and computer simulations and also presenting weekly updates to clients. My coding skills are mainly in Python, MySQL, Matlab and also a bit of Fortran. My PhD project requires the management of large amount of data obtained from simulations in highly scattering media. I describe those processes statistically and extract valuable information from the data. The skills acquired in this project are transferable to several other scenarios.
Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Applied Physics
Cloud Computing
Computational Mathematics
Computational Physics
Data Analysis
Database
Economic Data Analysis
IaaS
Inversion
Mathematical Modeling
Matlab
MySQL
PaaS
Python
SQL
Seismic Inversion
Tomography
Open for
cofounder
fulltime
parttime
Work Experience
CGG
2014-01 - 2015-07
Junior Geophysicist
Abu Dhabi - U.A.E.
fulltime
As part of the processing team, my tasks are found throughout the entire processing and management flow: • Contribute to the focal point between the acquisition team and the processing center. • Project management. Perform tracking of field and client information. • Elaborate regular reports regarding the status of the project. • Present to the client weekly progresses in the processing flow and managing information. • Manage SEGD, SEGY, geometry and all necessary data. Perform tracking of such information. • Perform quality control of the data, statistical analysis, merge geometries, apply filters, apply static corrections, velocity analysis, migration, among other processing tasks.
University of Oxford
2013-06 - 2013-08
Economic Data Analyst
Oxford - UK
internship
• Searched referenced data about essential economics and social indicators: wealth and income distribution, land and house ownership rates (private, state, and communal), Gini index, education spending per capita, internet users, employee ownership companies and stock option plans (ESOP). • Developed linear regressions, setting the Gini coefficients against these factors and performed statistical tests to determine the correlation, nature and strength of these relationships between variables. • Established conclusions about the relevance of these indicators with respect to the reduction of inequality in the world, measured in terms of the Gini coefficient.
W. A. Analytics
2021-10 -
Data Manager
Basel-Stadt
parttime
• Defining tech strategy and data pipelines. • Communicating with tech vendors. • Enhancing the scalability, performance and optimisation of database structures. • Enhancing the effectiveness of database tools and services. • Helping build the structure and design of the database.
Academic Experience
ETH Zurich -
2016.06 - 2021.07
Doctorate, Dr. in Wave Physics - Geophysics
KAUST -
2012.08 - 2013.12
Master of Science, MSc in Geophysics
National University of Colombia -
2007.07 - 2012.04
Bachelor of Science, BSc in Physics