Kirsten Winther
Staff Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolKirsten Winther is a Staff Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, applying quantum calculations, data science, and machine learning to discover new materials for catalysis. With eight years of experience, she advanced from Associate Staff Scientist (2020–2025) to Staff Scientist (2025–present), leading computational catalysis research. As a former postdoc at Stanford/SLAC, she helped build Catalysis-Hub.org and developed ML approaches like Gaussian Processes and active learning for materials discovery. Her work merges quantum chemistry, data-driven modeling, and scalable ML to accelerate catalysis research and materials innovation. She holds an MSc in Physics and Nanotechnology from DTU and a BSc in Nanoscience from Aarhus University, underpinning a strong foundation in physics and materials science. Based in the Bay Area, she collaborates across national labs and academia to push the boundaries of computational catalysis discovery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Physics and Nanotechnology, MSc, Physics and Nanotechnology at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet / Technical University of DenmarkBSc, Nanoscience, BSc, Nanoscience at Aarhus Universitet
Github Skills (35)
simulation10
flask-graphql10
uploading10
combinatorics10
chemical-engineering10
ase10
catalyst10
materials-informatics10
catalysis10
atomic10
surface10
querying10
front-end9
computational-chemistry9
sqlalchemy9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SUNCAT-Center/CatKit
May 2018 - Nov 2022
General purpose tools for high-throughput catalysis
Contributions:80 commits, 16 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years 6 months
chemical-engineeringcatalysispurposematerials-sciencecombinatorics
kirstenwinther/CatalysisHubFrontend
Oct 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:8 PRs, 66 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 1 month
reactdatabasereact-front-endreactjsfront-end
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