Madicken Munk
Assistant Professor at Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMadicken Munk is an Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Oregon State University with 11 years of experience bridging high-performance computing, reactor analysis, and radiation transport research. She earned a PhD from UC Berkeley and has held research and postdoctoral positions at UIUC and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where she developed hybrid neutron transport methods and advanced tools for deep-penetration, anisotropic flux problems. Her work spans both applied reactor design—such as fluoride salt–cooled pebble bed studies—and backend scientific software development, including notable contributions to the popular yt open-source project (adding geographic projection and coordinate transforms). Known for translating complex physics into robust computational workflows, she also has a track record of teaching excellence and mentoring, evidenced by a "Best Graduate Instructor" award during her PhD.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyBS, Nuclear Engineering, BS, Nuclear Engineering at Oregon State UniversityCRHS
Github Skills (11)
visualization10
visualizations10
python10
scientific-computing9
data-structure9
data-structures9
data-visualizations7
data-visualisation7
data-visualization7
astrophysics6
astronomy6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
yt-project/yt
Mar 2018 - Oct 2021
Main yt repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:213 reviews, 417 commits, 300 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Madicken primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure of the project, as seen through the modification of base classes for data structures. They refactored utility and helper functions into separate files. Furthermore, they added geographic projection functionality by importing necessary libraries and setting up the related coordinate transformations. The commits also added and tested a number of coordinate transforms.
pythondatafinite-element-analysisgeophysicsnuclear-engineering
munkm/Madicken-Research
Oct 2014 - Jan 2018
Contributions:129 commits, 45 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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