Learner profile of a
Plasma Simulation Astrophysicist
Spacecat Q. Spacecat is a plasma astrophysicist whose research is on plasma simulation. Their skills include:
- Unix
- Bash shell scripting
- Makefiles (including compiling, linking, and installing simulation packages)
- Programming in Fortran 90
- Visualization software (such as VisIt)
- Python
- NumPy
- SciPy
- Astropy
- Matplotlib
- High performance computing
- PBS scripts to submit jobs
- Transferring data
- Working with legacy codes
- Knowledge of numerical methods
- Debugging
- Designing software architecture
- Writing clean code and understandable documentation
- Project management for scientific software development
- Plasma physics