Sophia Lilleengen
Applied Data Scientist
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSophia Lilleengen is an applied data scientist with a PhD in Astrophysics and a decade of experience turning complex scientific problems into robust, reproducible software and machine learning solutions. She has led Bayesian and neural modelling projects, secured GPU and event funding, and taught ML and scientific computing to 100+ students annually, blending research leadership with hands-on engineering. Her work spans open-source scientific packages, time-series forecasting of galactic interactions, and production-ready tools used by international research teams. Comfortable moving between Python, C/C++ integrations and high-performance compute environments, she excels at extracting actionable insight from messy data and mentoring others to do the same. Based in Manchester, she brings a rare mix of astrophysical domain expertise and practical data-product delivery for real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at Heidelberg UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at University of Surrey
German, English, French, Spanish, Norwegian
Github Skills (28)
dynamics9
orbit8
physics8
orbital-mechanics8
astronomy8
simulation7
astrophysics7
python7
astrodynamics7
expansion6
polyhedra5
polynomials5
gitbook5
libgit24
git-addons4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sophialilleengen/mwlmc
May 2022 - Dec 2024
Milky Way - LMC simulation with orbit integrator
Contributions:11 PRs, 48 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
milky-wayorbitsimulationlmc
sophialilleengen/GC_actions
Sep 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:95 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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