Portrait of Raymond Amador

Dr. sc. ETH Zürich

Raymond Amador

Computational physicist. Chiral reactions on surfaces: enhanced-sampling molecular dynamics and machine-learned interatomic potentials. Open, visual course companions for computational science.

Open-Source Courses

  1. Physics by computation and visualisation; elementary mechanics to quantum and statistical mechanics, and (almost) everything in between. Now complete, Prologue to Afterword. Visit  DOI 

  2. Based on the ETH Zürich graduate course in Spring Semester 2023. Visit  DOI 

  3. Shell fluency from zero: the terminal, pipes, and scripting, as runnable browser-based notebooks. The groundwork any computational-science course quietly assumes. Visit  DOI 

Education

  • Doctor of Sciences ETH Zürich & Empa

    Enhanced sampling of chiral reactions on chiral surfaces DOI 

  • M.Sc. Physics Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Electronic structure and optical properties of Na2KSb and NaK2Sb for photocathodes Paper 

  • B.Sc. Physics University of Miami

    The DXL sounding-rocket mission to study solar-wind charge exchange