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Jesus M Rueda-Becerril, PhD

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A bit about me

I am a computational astrophysicist. I currently work as Software Engineer at Mindex.

I studied Physics at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (Mexico). I graduated developing a numerical solver for the geodesics equation. During my master studies at the University of Michoacan (Mexico), specializing on numerical hydrodynamics in GR developing a relativistic SPH code. I did my PhD studies at the University of Valencia (Spain) under the supervision of Prof. Miguel A. Aloy and Dr. Petar Mimica. My main research was around numerical modeling of high energy radiation in magnetized plasma, particularly studying flares in blazars.

After that I became a Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University, under the mentorship of Prof. Dimitrios Giannios. There I worked on modeling particle acceleration processes and high-energy radiation in relativistic outflows. For this I developed a numerical code that is capable of revealing the effects of the interaction of particles and radiation in plasma undergoing magnetic reconnection, shocks, turbulence, etc.

Right after that, I started working as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the CCRG at RIT, under the mentorshiip of Prof. Manuela Campanelli. I worked on simulations of supermassive black hole binaries approaching merger, studying their accretion disk dynamics and calculating their photon spectral and timing signatures, including jet formation. To acheive this I make use of the numerical code Harm3D, and the PatchworkMHD infrastructure.

Beyond astrophysics, science and computers, I love hiking and climbing. In other words: I love the mountains. I go outdoors whenever I get the chance. If not, the best approximation to that is walking down the street and going to the climbing gym, which I also enjoy greatly. I am a dinosaur enthusiast. I love learning about those amazing, and unfortunately extinct, beings.

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