Summary
Pedro Hasselmann is a postdoctoral researcher and planetary scientist with 13 years of scientific computing experience and a PhD in Planetary Astronomy, specializing in radiative transfer (Hapke) modeling, multivariate clustering, image processing and computer vision for atmosphereless small bodies. He has contributed to major space missions (ESA Rosetta VIRTIS/OSIRIS, NASA OSIRIS-REX OVIRS/OCAMS, JAXA Hayabusa2 ONC/NIRS3) and turns complex inverse problems into constrained surface physical properties like albedo, roughness and particle phase function. Fluent in Python with a decade-plus of tool development and published papers that leverage his codebase, he blends rigorous theory with production-ready scientific software. Based in Massy, France and currently at INAF, he pairs hands-on data analysis and image registration expertise with an eye for linking micro-physical surface parameters to geological processes, a perspective shaped by field-leading mission experience.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Planetary Astronomy and Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Planetary Astronomy and Science at Observatório Nacional/MCTI/Brazil
Bachelor's degree, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Bachelor's degree, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, French, English, Spanish