Willy Guenthner
Associate Professor
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolWilly Guenthner is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois with eight years of academic experience and a PhD in Geosciences from the University of Arizona, specializing in low-temperature (U-Th)/He thermochronometry to constrain rates and timing of uplift and erosion. He blends laboratory kinetics, field studies, and thermal modeling to link crystal-scale diffusion processes to landscape- and plate-scale tectonic evolution. His work has helped clarify how temperature–time history records surface–tectonic coupling in diverse settings from mountain belts to cratons. Prior experience in industry as a geoscientist at ExxonMobil informs a pragmatic approach to problem framing and data interpretation. Based in Urbana, Illinois, he pursues research that is both methodologically rigorous and directly relevant to understanding Earth’s long-term surface dynamics.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBA, Geology, magna cum laude, BA, Geology, magna cum laude at Carleton College
Github Skills (10)
forge10
hardware9
mass9
conda9
mass-spectrometry9
data-acquisition9
geoscience9
computer-vision8
python7
conda-forge7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenThermochronology/PyThermo
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Python tools for performing computational tasks in the field of low-temperature thermochronology.
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 3 PRs in 10 months
wrguenthner/HAL_data
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Data files and reduction schemes for the helium analysis lab (HAL) at the University of Illinois
Contributions:50 commits, 2 PRs, 115 pushes in 3 months
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