Nathaniel Roth
Computational Physicist
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Roth is a computational physicist with eight years of experience specializing in radiative transfer, opacities, and radiation-hydrodynamics, currently modeling extreme astrophysical flows at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His work focuses on the interaction between radiation and hydrodynamics around super-massive black holes, including tidal disruption events where stellar material is violently accreted and illuminated. Trained at UC Berkeley and Yale, he blends rigorous theoretical insight with large-scale numerical simulation to tackle multi-physics problems that bridge microphysical opacities and global dynamics. Based in Livermore, he brings a rare combination of deep astrophysical domain expertise and production-grade computational skill applied to high-performance research environments.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Astrophysics, Astrophysics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Yale University
Github Skills (11)
data-repository7
prefix3
quantile3
meta-analysis3
radiation2
fuzzy-logic2
bootstrapping2
simulation2
hydrodynamics1
python1
numba1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nroth/tdegb
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 months
sn-rad-trans/data1
Aug 2019 - Dec 2021
Data Repository for the Code Comparison
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
comparisondata-repository
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