about.qmd

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title: "About"
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### The Organization

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BrainTwister<sup>&reg;</sup> is a <a href="https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/013877841"
target="_blank">registered trademark of the European Union</a> for developing and distributing hard- and software products for scientific purposes. Furthermore for consultancy of any kind scientific and technological services.
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### The Founder

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<img src="images/portrait-bernd-doser.jpg"
style="float:left; margin-left:3mm; margin-right:5mm; margin-top:3mm"/>

BrainTwister<sup>&reg;</sup> was created by Bernd Doser in 2015. He has studied
Chemistry at the University of Tübingen and completed his PhD in Theoretical
Chemistry in the field of linear scaling algorithms for ab-initio quantum
chemistry. After a research stay at the University of Munich (LMU), he worked
as Scientific Software Engineer at
<a href="https://avmatsim.eu"
target="_blank">Avant-Garde Materials Simulation GmbH</a>
in Freiburg developing software for crystal structure prediction and automatic
force field generation.
In his current position as Senior Software Developer at the 
<a href="https://h-its.org"
target="_blank">Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gGmbH</a>
he is responsible for modern software engineering methods and high-performance
programming techniques.
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