Reuben Nixon-hill
Scientist-Earth Observations Data Assimilation
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolReuben Nixon-hill is a versatile scientific software engineer and Earth observations data assimilation scientist with nine years of experience spanning biomedical engineering, R&D, and scientific computing. He holds an MSci in Physics and completed a multidisciplinary PhD at Imperial College focused on differentiable abstractions and automated code generation for finite element models, bringing deep expertise in PDEs, FEM, variational data assimilation and numerical optimisation. At the Met Office he applies that research to operational Earth observations, and he has a strong track record producing maintainable, extensible software for both end users and research teams. A long-term contributor to the Firedrake ecosystem, he improves project documentation and usability for a widely used automated FEM system. Colleagues value his ability to learn languages quickly, work independently or in small teams, and translate complex scientific problems into practical software solutions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Science - MSci, Physics, 1st Class Hons., Master in Science - MSci, Physics, 1st Class Hons. at Imperial College London
Github Skills (2)
sphinx10
documentation10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
firedrakeproject/firedrake
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Firedrake is an automated system for the portable solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method (FEM)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:332 reviews, 224 commits, 98 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Reuben primarily contributed to the Firedrake project's documentation. Their commits involved adding instructions for removing Firedrake and correcting/removing outdated fix instructions. They updated links to notebooks and revised/added notes in the download documentation. They also made comments about fixing plotting functions in a separate commit.
equationspartialfemmethodsimulation
ReubenHill/point-data-paper-code
Nov 2020 - May 2023
Code for "Consistent Point Data Assimilation in Firedrake and Icepack"
Contributions:3 releases, 25 PRs, 74 pushes in 2 years 6 months
pointmachine-learning
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