Peter Heuer
Scientist at Laboratory for Laser Energetics
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Heuer is an experimental plasma physicist with eight years of experience designing and executing high-energy-density and fusion-relevant experiments, now a scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. He combines hands-on hardware design, diagnostics development, and campaign leadership for magnetized and laser-driven plasmas with rigorous data analysis and scientific communication. His work spans from building probes and imaging systems to developing reproducible analysis and test automation for open-source plasma tools like PlasmaPy, where he has contributed backend modules, tests, and documentation. Comfortable bridging lab and code, he brings practical instrumentation skills (electronics, machining, LabView/IgorPro) and a track record of organizing complex multi-week experimental campaigns. Notably, he pairs deep experimental expertise with developer-quality practices in open-source scientific software, improving reproducibility for the fusion community.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Final GPA 3.85, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Final GPA 3.85 at University of RochesterDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Plasma and High-Temperature Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Plasma and High-Temperature Physics at University of California, Los Angeles
English
Github Skills (9)
pytest10
python10
documentation10
numpy10
testing10
astropy9
atomics8
atomic8
astrophysics8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
An open source Python package for plasma research and education
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer, Technical Writer, & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer, Technical Writer, & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:607 reviews, 27 commits, 77 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on developing and improving the `parameters.thermal_speed` module, adding support for different dimensionalities and implementing notebook examples, tests and documentation. The user also contributed to other modules, including `thomson` and `bremsstrahlung`, and wrote documentation. The user's contributions also included bugfixes and testing for other parts of the project.
physicsheliophysicspythonscienceparticles
pheuer/cr39py
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Code for processing CR-39 particle track data
Contributions:4 releases, 55 PRs, 250 pushes in 2 years 8 months
particlepython
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