Daniel Fulton

Daniel Fulton first became a NERSC user in 2010, as a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, where his research on plasma microturbulence in fusion reactors required high-performance computing. After earning his Ph.D. in Physics in 2015, he continued his plasma computation research as a scientist at Tri Alpha Energy (now TAE Technologies). In 2018, Daniel made a leap to the Future innovation team at Adidas, where he developed software tools to aid in the engineering and design of 3D printed footwear components. He also introduced and deployed JupyterHub to Adidas Future. Daniel returned to NERSC in 2021, joining the Data & Analytics Services team as a Scientific Data Architect, with an ambition to bring lessons from private sector innovation to back to benefit the scientific research community.