Christian Hill
Senior Data Scientist
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolChristian Hill is a senior data scientist and physicist with 15+ years translating high-resolution atomic and molecular research into robust data infrastructure and scientific software. He led the IAEA Atomic and Molecular Data Unit, building internationally recommended databases for fusion research and coordinating global standardization efforts like XSAMS. Equally at home in academia and industry, he developed database backends for HITRAN and Quantemol-DB and contributes to ExoMol and HITRAN projects. A Python educator and author, he focuses on reproducible research, machine learning for science, and pragmatic data strategy consulting. Based in Vienna, he mentors early-career researchers and champions open science practices that make niche spectroscopic data broadly interoperable. An unusual strength is his blend of hands-on database engineering with deep expertise in spectroscopy and fusion-relevant atomic data.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Atmospheric Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Atmospheric Chemistry at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (44)
visualization10
bokeh10
jupyter10
data-visualisation10
maths10
ipywidgets10
altair10
nodes10
javascript9
holoviews9
python9
browser9
gtk9
pyodide9
wolfram-language9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xnx/pyqn
Mar 2013 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 33 commits, 1 PR in 9 years 5 months
pythonphysicalunitsphysical-quantitieshandling
scipython/plasma-projects
Sep 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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