Chris Godsalve
Freelance at I-have-no-company-name
South Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Godsalve is a freelance computational physicist and software developer with a PhD from Heriot-Watt and some 16 years of applied research experience in satellite orbit mechanics and atmospheric radiative transfer. He spent a decade at the Earth Observation Science Centre (ESSC) developing BRDF-coupled radiative transfer models for missions such as ATSR and CHRIS, and advised three PhD students. Technically fluent in FORTRAN and C++, he is building a next-generation open-source radiative transfer code intended to outperform existing tools. Based in South Oxfordshire, he balances remote freelance work and educational publishing with long-term management of chronic inflammatory and pulmonary conditions, which has shaped a patient, methodical approach to research and software.
16 years of coding experience
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusGithub contributions (5)
seagods/SphereTree
Sep 2009 - Mar 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 10 years 7 months
seagods/seagods.github.io
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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