Hannu Parviainen
Ramón Y Cajal Fellow at Universidad de La Laguna
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
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Top SchoolHannu Parviainen is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow and astrophysicist with 15 years' experience studying exoplanets, currently based at Universidad de La Laguna and previously holding fellowships at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and a postdoc at the University of Oxford. He blends scientific rigor with strong computational skills, routinely using Python (Pandas, SciPy, NumPy, mpi4py, matplotlib) and Fortran, and is comfortable with C/C++, Julia, MPI/OpenMP parallelism and OpenCL GPU work. His research projects require production-level code, large-scale data analysis and high-performance simulations, reflecting a deep familiarity with numerical methods and scientific software engineering. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics and a long academic track record spanning Finland, the UK and Spain. Notably, his programming roots trace back to Commodore 64 BASIC, highlighting a long-standing, hands-on curiosity about computing that informs both legacy and modern codebases.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at Instituto de Astrofísica de CanariasLicentiate degree, Astronomy, Licentiate degree, Astronomy at University of Helsinki
Finnish, English, Spanish
Github Skills (33)
mercury10
python10
k210
astronomy10
mass-spectrometry10
astrophysics10
transit10
differential-evolution10
kepler10
curve10
cosmology9
infrared9
reduction9
gaussian-processes9
conda9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hpparvi/opents
Nov 2015 - Oct 2022
Open exoplanet transit search pipeline
Contributions:109 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 7 years
transitexoplanetpipelineexoplanetstess
hpparvi/ull_tp_2425
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Programming Techniques course 24-25
Contributions:3 reviews, 120 PRs, 98 pushes in 3 months
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