Sven Buder
ARC DECRA Fellow at The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolSven Buder is an ARC DECRA Fellow and astrophysicist at the Australian National University who combines stellar spectroscopy, large-scale survey analysis, and advanced modelling to trace the Milky Way’s formation and its past mergers. With nine years of experience he has led the GALAH Survey data release that mapped nearly a million stars and developed methods linking resolved and integrated spectroscopy across galactic and extragalactic contexts. He supervises PhD students, runs multi-institutional collaborations, and translates spectral analysis techniques into interdisciplinary applications such as environmental hazard detection. An experienced lecturer and open-science advocate, he builds reproducible pipelines and teaches computational astronomy with a hands-on, data-driven approach. Sven also has a background in research software engineering and policy-facing roles, enabling clear communication with scientists, industry partners, and policymakers. His work uniquely bridges high-precision stellar chemistry with practical data science solutions applied beyond astronomy.
9 years of coding experience
Erasmus Exchange, Physics, Erasmus Exchange, Physics at Uppsala UniversityHigh School, Generalistic studies, High School, Generalistic studies at Landesgymnasium Sankt Afra, MeißenPhD / Dr. rer nat., Astronomy and Astrophysics, magna cum laude, PhD / Dr. rer nat., Astronomy and Astrophysics, magna cum laude at Heidelberg UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Physics, 1.2, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics, 1.2 at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
German, English, swedish / svenska
Github Skills (11)
earth9
documentation8
spectral7
stellar5
synthesis4
lte4
survey4
julia4
ats1
gaia1
routines1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
svenbuder/svenbuder.github.io
Nov 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
svenbuder/Accreted-stars-in-GALAH-DR3
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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