Alison Mitchell
DFG Emmy Noether Junior Group Leader at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolAlison Mitchell is a DFG Emmy Noether Junior Group Leader based in Erlangen with nine years of experience in gamma-ray astronomy, high-energy astrophysics, and cosmic-ray air-shower physics. She combines hands-on algorithm development in Python and C++—notably contributing muon calibration and reconstruction code to the widely used ctapipe project—with a strong background in requirements engineering and data-modeling for Cherenkov telescope arrays. A published conference speaker and scientific writer, she has led and supervised projects from bachelor to PhD level and taught at both bachelor and master levels. Fluent in German and native in English, Alison brings a rare mix of experimental calibration expertise and software engineering applied to large observatory pipelines, honed through postdoctoral roles at ETH Zurich, University of Zurich and the Max-Planck Institute and capped by a PhD from Heidelberg (Magna cum laude).
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Magna cum laude at Heidelberg UniversityIntegrated Masters Bsc MPhys, Physics, Integrated Masters Bsc MPhys, Physics at University of Warwick
Github Skills (6)
algorithm10
algorithms10
python10
scipy9
astropy9
data-analysis8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cta-observatory/ctapipe
Oct 2016 - Nov 2018
Low-level data processing pipeline software for CTAO or similar arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 29 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alison contributed to the development of muon calibration and reconstruction algorithms. They added files implementing a HESS-style 2D fit for muon images and integrated a ChaudhuriKundu ring fitter. Furthermore, they modified the main muon reconstruction script and its dependencies, as well as updating plotting and diagnostic tools. This work included both algorithm implementation and integration within the larger project.
arraypipelinedata-processingprocessing-pipelineastronomy
AMWMitchell/ctapipe
Oct 2016 - Mar 2021
CTA Python pipeline experimental version
Contributions:10 PRs, 59 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 5 months
ctapythonpipelineworkflow
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