Enrico Garaldi
Assistant Professor at Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolEnrico Garaldi is an assistant professor and computational astrophysicist with a decade of experience developing high-performance codes for radiative-hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics simulations of early galaxy formation and cosmic reionization. Based in Tokyo at Kavli IPMU and The University of Tokyo, he combines parallel programming in C/C++/Fortran and Python with machine learning and Monte Carlo methods to analyze and visualize very large simulated datasets. His work spans end-to-end simulation pipelines—from conceptual modeling and scalable implementation to scientific-standard publications and presentations. An active open-source contributor, he has improved point-source rendering and performance-critical routines in the widely used yt visualization project, reflecting a focus on practical tooling for the community. He trained at Bonn and Bologna with top honors and brings cross-institutional experience from Max Planck, UCSC, and Osaka that informs both research and reproducible software development. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex physical problems into efficient, maintainable computational components.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Scientific high school degree, Scientific-Technological High School, 100/100 cum laude, Scientific high school degree, Scientific-Technological High School, 100/100 cum laude at I.T.I.S. Fermo CorniBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, 110/110 cum laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, 110/110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio EmiliaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics at The University of BonnMaster's degree, Theoretical Physics, 110/110 cum laude, Master's degree, Theoretical Physics, 110/110 cum laude at Università di Bologna / University of Bologna
English, Italian, German, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
data-visualizations10
scientific-visualization10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
cython10
numpy10
astronomy8
astrophysics8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yt-project/yt
Oct 2016 - May 2018
Main yt repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Enrico focused on enhancing the point source rendering capabilities within the yt project. Their contributions included adding the ability to specify radii for point sources in the rendering process, optimizing the `zpoints` function, and correcting a default value. Furthermore, the user enabled broadcasting of single radii values for efficient rendering. Additionally, the user fixed a problem related to division operations in `save_annotated`.
pythondatafinite-element-analysisgeophysicsnuclear-engineering
EGaraldi/ZInCo
Jul 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:15 commits in 3 months
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