Space physicist · plasma simulations & open-source tools
I model plasma in planetary magnetospheres — from quasiperiodic Alfvén-wave resonances at Saturn to magnetotail reconnection feeding the terrestrial ring current, using multi-scale MHD–PIC simulations on HPC. I earned my PhD in Geophysics & Space Physics at UCLA (2022) after a BA in Physics at Oxford, and I build open-source tools for reading, analyzing, and visualizing large simulation datasets. Currently based in Rome.
A Python toolkit for reading, analyzing, and plotting output from particle-in-cell and MHD plasma simulations. It offers a unified reader across formats (iPIC3D, BATSRUS, OpenGGCM) mapped onto a canonical field schema, plus geometry-aware operators and derived plasma quantities.
A browser-based 3D viewer and lightweight analyzer for plasma simulation data: volume rendering, oblique slicing, GPU streamlines, and particle clouds at interactive framerates. Schema-compatible with pypic (Zarr / HDF5 / Parquet). Successor to the magviz prototype.
An earlier interactive web tool for visualizing multi-TB magnetospheric simulation datasets in the browser — the proof of concept that motivated webpic.
Occasional notes on plasma physics, computation, and open science — coming soon.
Away from the simulations: cycling, photography, and woodworking — a small exhibit of each, in progress: