Jonas Pleyer

• Study of cellular systems via computational models
• Developed and maintained cellular_raza, an agent-based simulation framework
• Contributed to the open-source Rust ecosystem
• Published peer-reviewed software and scientific papers and reviewed papers

• Weekly tutorials in Physics, Mathematics and Systems Biology, exams, lectures (see profile)

• Uncertainty estimation for heat pumps and sensors, eco-label validation and assignment

• Natural Language Processing, Data Analysis

Doctoral Candidate (Computational Systems Biology)
MSc. Physics (Theoretical Physics & Mathematics),
Thesis: “Zero Values of the TOV Equation” (Prof. Nadine Große)

MSc. Physics
Bsc. Physics
Thesis: “About Topological Tunneling Configurations, the Anharmonic Oscillator
and the Functional Renormalization Group” (Prof. Jan Pawlowski)

cellular_raza is a library to construct numerical simulations cellular systems. It is written in Rust with templates and generics and thus allows for user-defined designs of agents from a clean slate. It is well-documented (see cellular-raza.com) with guides and showcases as well as peer-reviewed and published. Throughout my PhD, my own use-cases and requirements by collaborators required me to frequently extend and maintain the package which taught me valuable lessons in the mid and long-term support of software. Its development sparked many more contributions in the broader Rust ecosystem (github.com/jonaspleyer/cellular_raza.

This Python package allows to simulate rod-shaped bacteria as well as automatically estimate their mechanical parameters by fitting to time series of microscopic images. It uses the packages cellular_raza,ndarray,nalgebra in the numerical Rust code and numpy,scipy,matplotlib,pyvista for analysis, initialization and visualization. Bindings between Rust and Python are generated using pyo3 and maturin.

I created this package since I was unsatisfied with existing solutions to create scientific posters. It uses the new typst typesetting system and is being used frequently by other PhD students.

This extends the existing crate approx which enables approximate comparison of floating point operations. It allows users to very quickly implement its functionality by using derive macros.

This crate provides interoperability between Rust and a subset of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) C++ library. It uses multiple technologies such as cmake, cxxbridge and WrapVTK to automate boilerplate generation of the bindings.

2024
Top 10 Overgrad, Gold Medal, Best Infectious Diseases, Nominated for: Best Wiki, Best Presentation, best Integrated Human Practices, Best Measurement, Best Composite Part

2023
Top 10 Overgrad, Gold Medal, Nominated for: Best Foundational Advance Project, Best New Composite Part, Best Wiki

2011 7th in Germany

2010 3rd in Germany, 9th in Europe