Matthew Gent
PhD Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Gent is a PhD researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy with eight years’ experience combining stellar physics and software development to precisely characterise cool stars for exoplanet science. He builds Bayesian inference pipelines that fuse asteroseismology, photometry, spectroscopy and distances, and contributes code to the PLATO mission to enable robust terrestrial-planet studies in habitable zones. Comfortable across Python, MATLAB, C, Fortran and LaTeX, he brings practical image-analysis experience with IRAF and a talent for translating complex 3D stellar simulations into usable 1D models. His background spans hands-on undergraduate research at Cambridge and Exeter on stellar rotation, CMEs and common-envelope evolution, reflecting a rare mix of observational, theoretical and computational expertise.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MPhys Physics with Astrophysics, Physics, 1st, MPhys Physics with Astrophysics, Physics, 1st at University of Exeter
Github Skills (2)
rotation8
evolution6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mg477/SAPP
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 11 months
mg477/git_tutorial
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 months
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