Andrew Benson
Staff Scientist at Observatories of The Carnegie Institution for Science
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Benson is a staff scientist and theoretical astrophysicist with 14 years of experience developing sophisticated computational models of galaxy formation, currently based at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena. He combines deep academic credentials—a PhD from Durham and postdoctoral fellowships at Caltech and Oxford—with hands-on software leadership as lead developer of the Galacticus project. His work spans the full modelling pipeline: building accurate, extensible simulation code, designing novel analysis techniques, and mentoring students and collaborators in research and teaching. Known for translating complex theory into reproducible, production-quality code, he occupies a rare niche between analytic theory and practical software engineering in astrophysics.
14 years of coding experience
PhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at Durham UniversityMPhys, Physics with Astrophysics, MPhys, Physics with Astrophysics at University of Leicester
Github Skills (44)
astrophysics10
galaxy10
mass8
runner7
calculator7
datasets7
halo6
sun5
gcc-compiler5
data-set5
python5
validation-framework5
catalog4
gcc4
cicd4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
abensonca/testBench
Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
Test benchmarking
Contributions:1 release, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
galacticusorg/galacticus-emacs
Mar 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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