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.
39 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 (138)
python10
toolbox10
astronomy10
image-analysis10
simulations10
orbital-mechanics10
astrophysics10
dynamics10
stellar10
astrodynamics10
planets10
observe10
core-library9
linux9
cli9
Programming languages (13)
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
teuben/SpectralLineReduction
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
Spectral Line Reduction software for SEQUOIA OTF mapping
Contributions:224 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
reductionspectralmappingotf
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