Andrew Collette

Andrew is a Python leader, and is the founder of the HDF5 for the Python (h5py) software project. Before joining Enthought, Andrew worked as an experimental physicist at the University of Colorado’s IMPACT hypervelocity accelerator facility, studying the effects of high-speed micrometeoroid impacts on planetary surfaces and spacecraft and operated a consulting company focused on HDF and LabVIEW-based software. During his graduate studies, he worked on expanding laser-produced plasmas at the Basic Plasma Science Facility at UCLA. He holds a Ph.D. in plasma physics from UCLA.