Dennis Schmelzer

Background

About Dennis Schmelzer

Safety Validation Engineer at ESE GmbH for rail related software components and systems, trackside and onboard. ETCS Level 2 components for SIL4 regarding EN50126 / EN50128 (EN50716)/ EN50129. Lead Specialist Software Validation, technical lead of a software validation team. Teamlead Trainee at ESE GmbH for a software validation team (02/2024-01/2025). Founder of "Dennis Schmelzer - Begabtenschmiede" begabtenschmiede.de, worked as a freelancer in online tutoring. Host of Physik-Geplänkel podcast with up to listeners per month. Research assistant and PhD student at Albert-Einstein-Institute Hannover in the ALPS collaboration. M.Sc. in physics acquired in Hannover, Germany (grade 1,6). Specialized in laser optics (fiber optics and interferometric metrology), radiation protection and theoretical meteorology.* Master's thesis:"Thermally compensated fiber injectors for the three-backlink and hexagon experiments"* Bachelor's thesis:"Experimental investigation of general astigmatic Gaussian beams and comparison to simulation"* co-author of physics paper: Modeling of the general astigmatic Gaussian beam and its propagation through 3D optical systems * co-author of physics paper: Temperature effects in narrow-linewidth optical cavity control with a surrogate quasi-second-harmonic field * Computer skills: MS Office365, MS Windows, Git, Redmine, Rational DOORS, Rational ClearQuest, Linux, Gnuplot, LaTex, MatLab, OriginLab, Autodesk Inventor and others * Programming skills: Python, HTML/CSS, PHP, JavaScript, C/C++ and others