Christophe Pinte
Astrophysicist at Monash University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChristophe Pinte is an astrophysicist with 11 years of international research experience specializing in numerical modeling of young stars and the earliest stages of planet formation. Based in Melbourne and affiliated with CNRS and Monash University, he combines academic rigor from a PhD at Université Grenoble Alpes with hands-on code development to bridge simulations and radiative transfer. Notably, he has contributed backend enhancements to the widely used PHANTOM smoothed particle hydrodynamics code, integrating it with MCFOST to enable coupled temperature and ISM radiation field treatments. His work spans observationally relevant modeling and software engineering, enabling more realistic cooling/heating prescriptions and improved interoperability between community tools. Comfortable in collaborative, cross-institutional projects, he brings both theoretical insight and practical software changes that make complex simulations more reproducible and usable.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at Université Grenoble Alpes
Github Skills (6)
simulations10
simulation10
fortran10
astrophysics9
fluid-simulation9
fluid-dynamics9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
danieljprice/phantom
Mar 2017 - Aug 2022
Phantom Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 12 PRs, 7 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Christophe primarily focused on enhancing the `phantom` codebase by integrating it with the `mcfost` radiative transfer code. Their contributions involved adding options to write temperature fit files, turning cooling and heating on/off based on the `mcfost` integration, adding parameters for ISM radiation field selection, and updating the makefile to compile with the new version of cfitsio. Further changes included adjusting the equation of state and adding the option to use mcfost default stellar parameters.
fluid-solverfluid-dynamicssmoothed-particle-hydrodynamicsastrophysical-simulationastrophysics
cpinte/dynamite
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
DYNamical Analysis and MultIscale Tomography of line Emission
Contributions:1 review, 79 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 3 months
analysismolecularlayersprotoplanetaryprotoplanetary-disks
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