Mauricio Matera
Profesor Adjunto at Universidad Nacional de La Plata
La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolMauricio Matera is a physicist-turned-researcher and educator with over a decade of experience as an Adjoint Researcher at CONICET and a Profesor Adjunto at Universidad Nacional de La Plata. He holds a PhD in physics from UNLP and has international postdoctoral experience from Ulm University, blending deep theoretical knowledge with practical research leadership. Mauricio contributes to open-source computational tools, notably improving core functionality and performance of the Mathics3 open-source Mathematica kernel. His work bridges scientific computing and pedagogy, emphasizing code correctness, readability, and reproducible mathematical workflows. Based in La Plata, he combines sustained academic productivity with hands-on software development that benefits both research and teaching.
10 years of coding experience
Degree in Physics Ciencias físicas, Degree in Physics Ciencias físicas at Universidad Naciona de La Plata
Github Skills (4)
python10
refactor9
refactoring9
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Mathics3/mathics-core
May 2021 - Jan 2023
An open-source Mathematica Kernel. This repository contains the Python modules for WL Built-in functions, variables, core primitives, e.g. Symbol, a parser to create Expressions, and an evaluator to execute them.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1293 reviews, 778 commits, 692 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Mauricio primarily worked on the core of the Mathics-core project, implementing and refining functions related to mathematical computations. They introduced new features, such as pattern tests for numbers and improvements to existing functions (e.g., Simplify, Integrate, Factorial, DecimalDigits), and corrected their behavior. The user also focused on improving the code's readability and performance by reformatting Python code with Black and adding tests to improve correctness, as well as contributing to code cleanup efforts.
pythonmathematicspython-modulesmathematicaparser
mmatera/Mathics
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
a general-purpose computer algebra system
Contributions:39 commits, 11 PRs, 640 pushes in 1 year 3 months
mathsymbolic-computationlinear-algebracomputer-algebra-systemsymbolic-math
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