Achintya Rao
Science Communication And Engagement Manager, COALESCE
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAchintya Rao is a science communication leader with 11 years’ experience, currently managing Science Communication and Engagement for COALESCE at the University of the West of England. With a PhD in Science Communication and an MA in Science Journalism, he blends rigorous research training and storytelling to translate complex physics and data topics for diverse audiences. He has freelanced as a science writer and editor since 2012, honing an ability to craft clear, accurate content across formats. His open-source contributions include technical writing for the high-profile CERN Open Data portal, improving documentation and getting-started guides that support global reuse of particle physics data. Colleagues describe him as a detail-focused communicator who pairs academic insight with practical outreach strategies. He brings a rare combination of hands-on documentation work at institutions like CERN and strategic engagement leadership in academe.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Science Communication, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Science Communication at University of the West of EnglandB.Sc., Physics, B.Sc., Physics at St. Xavier's CollegeM.A. (Merit), Science Journalism, M.A. (Merit), Science Journalism at City St George’s, University of London
English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, French, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
documentation10
technical-writing10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cernopendata/opendata.cern.ch
Sep 2014 - Jan 2021
Source code for the CERN Open Data portal
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 reviews, 109 commits, 43 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Achintya's commits primarily involve updates to documentation, with changes to the "about" pages, the "getting started" guides, and the "CMS Simulated Dataset Names" documentation. They also made improvements to the event display help files. The contributions appear focused on improving the clarity, accuracy, and completeness of the documentation for the CERN Open Data portal.
digital-librarypythoncerninveniosoftwaredigital-repository
RaoOfPhysics/phd
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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