Juan Varela
Assistant In Instruction - Physics & Astronomy Department at Bates College
Lewiston, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Varela is an applied physicist and educator with eight years of experience combining computational research, laboratory instruction, and data-driven process development. He holds an M.S. in Applied Physics from UMass Boston and currently supports physics lab courses at Bates College, managing equipment, grading, and TA coordination while contributing to curriculum development. Juan’s background spans national-lab internships and particle-physics research—work that produced visualizations and contributed to an arXiv preprint—and he has practical skills in numerical analysis, automation, and scientific computing. Outside academia he teaches game development and builds C# Unity projects, reflecting a rare blend of computational physics expertise and hands-on software craftsmanship. Colleagues value his knack for optimizing lab workflows and turning exploratory research (e.g., Wolfram Physics Project investigations) into reusable tools.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Spackenkill High SchoolMaster of Science in Applied Physics, Master of Science in Applied Physics at University of Massachusetts BostonBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at University at Albany, SUNY
Spanish, English
Github Skills (3)
unity3d10
build-automation9
open-source7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jvarelaaloisio/Jumpers
Mar 2021 - Oct 2024
Final Project for Programming 2
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 7 months
jvarelaaloisio/HealthSystem
Jan 2021 - Jan 2024
Simple HP system
Contributions:20 releases, 28 PRs, 95 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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