Florian Beutler
Associate Professor (Reader)
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFlorian Beutler is an Associate Professor and Royal Society–funded researcher based in Edinburgh with 11 years of experience at the interface of cosmology, statistics and software engineering. He has authored over 70 peer-reviewed papers and built high-performance C/C++ and Python pipelines to compress and analyze million-galaxy surveys for BAO and RSD science, bridging theory and production-scale data analysis. Comfortable across mathematical modelling, statistical inference and databases (Postgres, Elasticsearch), he brings a rare blend of astrophysics PhD rigor and practical software craftsmanship. He has a background in computer science from Heidelberg and a track record of leading collaborative survey projects and supervising early-career researchers, often turning complex cosmological problems into reproducible, deployable code.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysic/Cosmology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysic/Cosmology at The University of Western AustraliaBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Heidelberg University
English, German, French
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Github Skills (35)
sampling7
clustering5
mcmc5
python5
cosmology5
searchable4
statistical-inference4
latex4
mpi4py4
automatic-differentiation3
data-analysis3
datasets3
large-scale3
resampling3
astrophysics3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fbeutler/fbeutler.github.io
Sep 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:757 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
fbeutler/pk_tools
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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