Alexey Mints
Postdoctoral Researcher at Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexey Mints is a postdoctoral researcher and software developer with 10+ years of experience turning complex astrophysical data into reliable, production-ready pipelines and tools. He has led work packages for EU projects and contributed to the Gaia mission, delivering a pipeline that extracted ~500,000 new stellar measurements from crowded fields and shipping additional science products on schedule. Comfortable across Python, FORTRAN and database-backed systems, he built UniDAM (a public Bayesian tool for distance/age/mass estimation) and web services that aggregate and calibrate heterogeneous astronomical databases. His background spans solo development in startups and coordinating large, cross-institute collaborations, with practical experience deploying non-portable enterprise software on compute clusters to speed processing. Based in Berlin, he combines rigorous PhD-era simulation skills with pragmatic engineering—often converting research code into documented, outreach-friendly outputs. An underappreciated strength is his knack for rapid domain immersion: he consistently delivers tangible results soon after entering new fields.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy and Astrophysics at St. Petersburg State UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at 239 school, St. Petersburg
Russian, German, English, Polish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
python10
astronomy10
language-server-protocol10
memory-mapped-file10
python-development10
switcher10
anaconda10
pyqt10
spyder10
ide10
estimate10
qt9
application-launcher9
dmenu9
rows9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
minzastro/latex_cleanup
Nov 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 7 years 5 months
minzastro/acknowledgment-generator
Jun 2016 - Feb 2024
Easily generate acknowledgment sections for papers
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 9 months
sections
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