Mark E. Fuller, Ph.D.
Contributions to Fedora and other FOSS Projects
I am a daily Fedora user and active in the community via testing updates and bug reporting. I have previously contributed translations (EN <=> DE) to Fedora as a member of the German Translators Team. I am currently packaging the Cantera libraries (chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite) for Fedora and Enterprise Linux. I also developed the German-language translations for the Matrix client Ditto. My other software development has focused on tools for computational chemistry (especially automated generation of chemical kinetic reaction mechanisms and chemistry simulation) and contributing to the documentation for related projects (including LaTeX templates): github and gitlab.
Research Engineer
In my day job I am a research engineer, primarily working on experimental combustion chemistry, but with significant secondary work on theoretical/computational chemistry. I am currently the laboratory manager for Prof. Alon Dana's research group in fundamental and applied chemical kinetics at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. I previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Physico-Chemical Fundamentals of Combustion research group at RWTH Aachen University under Prof. Alexander Heufer. I earned my Ph.D. with Prof. Franklin Goldsmith at Brown University working on nitrogen combustion chemistry and where I designed and constructed a diaphragmless "fire-by-wire" shock tube. During my doctoral studies, I spent a semester each at Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, Illinois, USA) with Dr. Robert Tranter and at the Institut de Combustion Aérothermique Réactivité et Environnement (Orléans, France) with Dr. Nabiha Chaumeix. For a high-level overview, I have profiles in the usual places: LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ORCID, &c...