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. Amateur Pokémon ROM-hack developer.

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

Open-Source Courses

  1. Elementary Computational Physics

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

  2. Molecular and Materials Modelling

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

  3. Introduction to the Bash Shell

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

  4. Linear Algebra in Python

    Linear algebra as the subject rather than the tool: vectors and elimination through the SVD to tensor networks, the matrix algebra inside machine learning, and quantum information. Now complete, Prologue to Epilogue. Visit  DOI  PDF 

Pokémon Romhack

  1. Pokémon Chronon

    A story-first ROM hack of Pokémon Emerald, set in Helvera: an alpine region where the trains run on time, until a company starts selling the time itself. In development. Visit