John Westernacher-schneider
Postdoctoral Researcher at Leiden Science - Universiteit Leiden
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJohn Westernacher-schneider is a postdoctoral researcher based in Leiden with nine years of experience applying numerical simulations to problems in hydrodynamics, relativistic astrophysics, and high-energy phenomena. Trained with a PhD from Perimeter Institute and University of Guelph, he bridges deep theoretical insight with practical computational methods used to model complex astrophysical flows and relativistic systems. His career includes successive research posts at University of Arizona, Clemson, and Leiden, where he has focused on scalable simulation frameworks and precision numerical experiments. John combines expertise in relativistic hydrodynamics with hands-on code development, often translating analytic theory into robust simulation pipelines. Colleagues value his ability to spot subtle physical effects in noisy simulation data and to optimize algorithms for demanding high-energy astrophysics scenarios. He is equally comfortable discussing foundational theory and the implementation details that make large-scale numerical studies possible.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical PhysicsDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Relativistic astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Relativistic astrophysics at University of Guelph
Github Skills (21)
simulation10
particle10
physics10
gpu9
diffraction9
dynamics8
cosmology8
astrophysics5
stellar3
cal3
binaries2
python2
gpu-acceleration2
prediction-model1
euler1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jwestern/sailfish
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
A very fast code to simulate binary accretion
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
simulationsimulate
jwestern/app-binary2d
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Rust port of the Mara3 setup for 2D circumbinary disks
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
rustegui
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