Research

Dr. Alex (Sandy) Antunes is a scientist and science writer specializing in computational astrophysics and leading edge information technology. His research involves high performance computing and parallelization, 3D visualization, algorithmic research, physics coding, web programming, and social media.

Sandy recently finished a fellowship as an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory studying the Sun and the million-ton electronics-disrupting bundles of charged plasma called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) the sun kicks off. He used images from the newly launched twin STEREO satellites to construct 3-D computer models of observed CMEs to understand and predict their behavior. He released his research code as 'STEREO 3D Data Reconstruction Studio' (S3DRS) into the publically available SolarSoftWare repository.

Current Projects