Peter Teuben
Research Scientist at University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Teuben is a research scientist with 39 years of experience in astrophysics, specializing in stellar dynamics and radio interferometry, based at the University of Maryland, College Park. He pairs deep domain expertise with hands‑on software development in C/C++/Fortran and Python on Unix/Linux platforms, and has a clear preference against IDL. His career spans postdoctoral and fellowship positions at top institutions including the Institute for Advanced Study and UIUC, following a PhD from the University of Groningen. Known for translating theoretical problems into robust, high-performance code, he brings uncommon longevity and institutional memory to long-term computational astronomy projects.
38 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Astrophysics, PhD, Astrophysics at University of GroningenVWO diploma, B, VWO diploma, B at Aletta Jacobs Scholengemeenschap
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Github Skills (174)
python10
toolbox10
astronomy10
rtl-sdr10
image-analysis10
mass-spectrometry10
orbital-mechanics10
camera10
reduction10
measurements10
infrared10
console10
astrophysics10
dynamics10
stellar10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
teuben/astropy
Jul 2017 - May 2024
Repository for the Astropy core package
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 10 months
pythonscienceastrophysicscore-packagecosmology
astroumd/ADASSProceedings
Oct 2018 - Nov 2024
ADASS Proceedings Preparation Kit: author and editor tools
Contributions:3 PRs, 203 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 2 months
editor-toolspreparationproceedings
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