Juan Santisteban
Lecturer at University of St Andrews
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJuan Santisteban is a lecturer and researcher with 12 years' experience at the intersection of astrophysics, engineering and data science, currently based in Edinburgh and teaching accreting compact objects and AGNs at the University of St Andrews. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics and has led observational programmes using the Las Cumbres global telescope network, building a fully automated Python pipeline and a PHP/MySQL data system to monitor and diagnose real-time variability of supermassive black holes. His background in mechanical engineering and early work as a mechanical designer and physics teacher give him a practical, hands-on approach to instrument and software development as well as science communication. Comfortable across research, teaching and systems engineering, he combines rigorous analysis with production-ready tooling that keeps long-term monitoring campaigns running smoothly.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at University of SouthamptonUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (10)
adobe-experience-manager3
collaboration2
perl2
correlation2
python2
fortran2
macos1
ads1
arxiv1
astronomy1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Alymantara/pydoppler
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
Alymantara/arx
May 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:1 release, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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