Hannu Parviainen
Ramón Y Cajal Fellow at Universidad de La Laguna
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
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Top SchoolHannu Parviainen is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow and astrophysicist with 15 years' experience studying exoplanets, currently based at Universidad de La Laguna and previously holding fellowships at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and a postdoc at the University of Oxford. He blends scientific rigor with strong computational skills, routinely using Python (Pandas, SciPy, NumPy, mpi4py, matplotlib) and Fortran, and is comfortable with C/C++, Julia, MPI/OpenMP parallelism and OpenCL GPU work. His research projects require production-level code, large-scale data analysis and high-performance simulations, reflecting a deep familiarity with numerical methods and scientific software engineering. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics and a long academic track record spanning Finland, the UK and Spain. Notably, his programming roots trace back to Commodore 64 BASIC, highlighting a long-standing, hands-on curiosity about computing that informs both legacy and modern codebases.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at Instituto de Astrofísica de CanariasLicentiate degree, Astronomy, Licentiate degree, Astronomy at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Spanish
Github Skills (42)
random-walk10
mercury10
atmosphere10
cosmology10
python10
infrared10
astronomy10
insar10
coefficients10
forge10
spectrum10
planets10
astrophysics10
orbital-mechanics10
transit10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hpparvi/ull_tp_2425
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Programming Techniques course 24-25
Contributions:3 reviews, 120 PRs, 98 pushes in 3 months
hpparvi/PyDE
Jun 2013 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 release, 39 commits, 10 pushes in 5 years 10 months
pythonevolutionglobal-optimizationoptimizationdifferential
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