Davide Cester

Medical Physicist and Imaging Researcher

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

About

I am a certified Medical Physicist with a passion for Science and a background in Nuclear Physics and Software Engineering. I am working for a radiologically safer world since 2011!

Experience

  • Universitätsspital Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland)
    • Medical Physicist
      Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

    • Postdoctoral Researcher
      Dec 2019 - Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Web Developer and System Administrator at Ferrovie.it
    Dec 2014 - Feb 2021 · 6 yrs 3 mos

    Design, implementation and development of a web platform for content publishing (both frontend and backend). Configuring and maintaining basic services (mail, backups, statistics, security).

  • Arktis Radiation Detectors Ltd (Zürich Area, Switzerland)
    • Physicist and Software Engineer
      Mar 2016 - Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      I took ownership of various business-critical software and algorithms for data analysis, mainly written in C++ and Python under Linux; this work included refactoring, testing/CI, maintenance of legacy code, integration of new hardware, release management, documentation, customer support, on-site installations and commissioning. I also worked on communications and protocols (USB, serial, network), databases (SQL and No-SQL), GUIs (HTML5/JS, Qt), Git.

    • Software Development Coordinator
      Sep 2017 - Mar 2018 · 7 mos

      During a transition period I carried additional duties: ownership of the codebase, contribution to technology roadmap, architectural redesign of the software stack, setup of a remote development team, ensuring on-time product delivery, Scrum master, Git administrator, partecipating to ISO9001 certification process.

    • Consultant
      Sep 2014 - Feb 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • University of Padova (Padova Area, Italy)
    • Contract Professor
      Sep 2015 - Aug 2016 · 1 yr

      Teaching laboratory courses to undergraduate students.

    • Temporary research fellow
      Mar 2012 - Feb 2016 · 4 yrs

  • Sponsored affiliate at University of Michigan
    Oct 2011 - Dec 2011 · 3 mos