Rubén Coto
Científico Titular at Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC)
Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRubén Coto is a senior researcher and software-savvy astroparticle physicist with over a decade of experience building analysis pipelines and instrumentation for very-high-energy gamma-ray observatories. Based at IAA‑CSIC in Granada, he progressed from PhD work on MAGIC through postdoctoral roles at MPI and INFN to a Ramón y Cajal fellowship and now a Científico Titular appointment, blending hardware trigger/readout design with simulation and data analysis. He contributes to open-source projects like ctapipe, where he implemented and refactored muon ring reconstruction and likelihood calculations critical for CTA-style telescope calibration. Comfortable moving between low-level algorithmic detail and systems integration, he combines rigorous academic publishing with production-ready software engineering. A non-obvious strength is his repeated work across both array hardware systems and the statistical software that extracts physics from complex shower images.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrofísica, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrofísica at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaMaster's degree, Física nuclear, Master's degree, Física nuclear at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
English, Catalan, Spanish, German, French, Italian
Github Skills (7)
astropy10
python10
scientific-computing10
image-processing10
numpy10
data-analysis10
machine-learning9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cta-observatory/ctapipe
Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
Low-level data processing pipeline software for CTAO or similar arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
Role in this project:
Data Scientist & Software Engineer
Data Scientist & Software EngineerContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 7 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Rubén primarily contributed to the muon reconstruction and analysis pipeline within the ctapipe project. They implemented and refactored functionalities related to muon ring fitting, including angular containment calculations, completeness estimations, and pixel analysis. Their work involved creating new functions and container objects for managing muon-related parameters and features while integrating these changes into existing analysis routines and examples. Additionally, they refined the muon integrator, addressing potential errors and ensuring the accurate calculation of likelihood values.
arraypipelinedata-processingprocessing-pipelineastronomy
rlopezcoto/ASICs_QC
May 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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