I'm a former astrophysicist who defected to programming control of other big scientific instruments like mass spectrometers and data reduction for the same. I have more or less retired now and returned to looking at novel faster ways to solve Kepler's equation. Recently published in MNRAS "An improved cubic approximation for Kepler's equation"

I have previously worked on image reconstruction, deconvolution, JPEG development and semi-analytic Pade approximations that allow better starting guesses for various difficult numerical problems.

I'm British but worked for 3 years in Japan and 5 years in Belgium.