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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.

Selected work

  1. Elementary Computational Physics

    Physics by computation and visualisation — mechanics to quantum and statistical mechanics, every result animated and validated. Visit 

  2. Molecular and Materials Modelling

    The ETH Zürich graduate course I taught (2021–2023), rebuilt as interactive notebooks on the course’s own real simulation data. Visit 

Education

  • Doctor of Sciences ETH Zürich & Empa

    Enhanced sampling of chiral reactions on chiral surfaces

  • M.Sc. Physics Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Electronic structure and optical properties of Na2KSb and NaK2Sb for photocathodes

  • B.Sc. Physics University of Miami

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