R Metcalf
Associate Professor
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolR Metcalf is an Associate Professor of astrophysics and cosmology based in Rome with 15 years of research and academic experience, currently leading the GLENCO research group at the University of Bologna. He combines deep theoretical physics expertise with strong skills in numerical algorithms, statistical analysis, data mining and scientific software development, producing tools and code under the glenco GitHub organization. His career spans prestigious research positions from Cambridge and Berkeley-trained PhD work to a Hubble Fellowship and a stint at the Max Planck Institute, reflecting a sustained focus on computational cosmology. Known for mentoring postdocs and graduate students, he translates complex cosmological problems into reproducible numerical experiments and open research software. An observant practitioner of both theory and practical coding, he often bridges analytical insight with scalable simulation pipelines not obvious from publication lists alone.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of California, BerkeleyBA, Physics, BA, Physics at Princeton University
English, Italian
Github Skills (20)
simulation10
simulations10
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
cmake8
data-science7
neural-network7
deep-neural-networks5
ml5
makefile5
intellisense5
compilation-database5
vscode4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rbmetcalf/Practical-Statistics
Feb 2018 - Apr 2025
Contributions:332 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 2 months
rbmetcalf/LensingCourse
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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