Naor Movshovitz
Subject Expert Teacher at BASIS Independent Silicon Valley
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNaor Movshovitz is a planetary scientist and educator with 13 years of experience applying numerical and probabilistic algorithms to the study of planets, moons, comets, and asteroids. As a project scientist in UCSC’s Astronomy and Astrophysics department with a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, he blends research on large and small bodies with hands-on computational methods. He also brings classroom experience teaching an upper-division Scientific Computing course to physics majors and currently serves as a Subject Expert Teacher at BASIS Independent Silicon Valley. Comfortable moving between research code and pedagogy, he has a background spanning physics, geophysics, and planetary science from institutions in Israel and California.
13 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree, Geophysics and Planetary Science, Master’s Degree, Geophysics and Planetary Science at Tel Aviv UniversityUniversity of California Santa CruzBachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at The Hebrew University
English, Hebrew, French
Github Skills (26)
simulations10
hydrodynamics10
astronomical-algorithms10
jupyter9
notebook9
python9
ipython9
intellisense7
planets7
python-extension7
pylint7
monte-carlo6
simulation6
data-science6
vscode5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nmovshov/narotropes
Dec 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
nmovshov/CMS-planet
Jun 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 29 PRs, 749 pushes in 6 years 9 months
fluidmethodsimulationinteriorplanets
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