Peter Hakel
Scientist 4 at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Hakel is a Scientist 4 at Los Alamos National Laboratory with 23+ years of experience in computational atomic and optical physics, specializing in atomic kinetics, spectral line formation, radiation transport, polarization-based spectroscopy, and equations of state. He combines deep domain expertise with hands-on scientific software development and DevOps using C/C++, Fortran 95, and Python to produce production-grade simulation and analysis tools. His career spans postdoctoral and international research roles—including work at Max Planck and Rutherford Appleton—and academic teaching from undergraduate labs to graduate courses on electrodynamics and software testing. Known for bridging rigorous theoretical modeling with practical spectroscopy diagnostics, he also brings an educator’s mindset to code quality, having lectured on design-by-contract and test-driven development. Based in Los Alamos, he leverages a PhD in Physics to tackle complex plasma modeling problems that inform experiments and high-consequence national-research missions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of Nevada, Reno
Slovak, English, Russian, Czech, GermanGithub contributions (3)
LANLhakel/FESTR
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:61 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
lanl/Checkpoint
Oct 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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