Agustina Pesce Lopez


https://aguspesce.github.io


Personal Information

Full name: Agustina Pesce Lopez

Pronouns: She/her

GitHub: aguspesce

Personal Website: https://aguspesce.github.io

ORCID: 0000-0002-5538-8845

Education

2014 - 2019
PhD in Geophysics, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina
2005 - 2014
Licentiate in Physics, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

Professional Appointments

Since June 2022

Maintainer of one of the core lessons of The Carpentries

Análisis y visualización de datos usando Python

Since Nov. 2021

Coding Coordinator and Trainer in Code to Communicate Program (CoCo).

CoCo is a NSF-funded bilingual program for grad-student

Key responsibilities:

2019 - March 2022

Assistant Professor of practice, Geology Department, FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina

Key responsibilities:

2019 - March 2022

Postdoctoral Researcher, Instituto Geofísico Sismológico Volponi

Influence of a mantle plume in subduction zones by geodynamics numerical models

Advisor: Dr. Victor Sacek (IAG-USP)

Awards and Scholarships

2019 - 2022
Postdoctoral Scholarship from CONICET
2014 - 2019
Phd scholarship from CONICET
2015
Travel grants: SEG/ExxonMobil Student Education Program (SEP), New Orleans, EE.UU.

Certifications

2022
Maintainer for The Carpentry
2021
Certified Carpentry Instructor

Open-source Software

Software Engineer and Data Scientist Experience

2020

Dashboard using Python and GitHub pages

A COVID-19 data visualization

2020

Dashboard using Plotly and Heroku

A COVID-19 data visualization

Since 2019

MANDYOC

Open source tool to simulate the mantle dynamics

Since 2019

tapIOca

Tools for transforming output files from Mandyoc code to dataset

Since 2016

Fatiando a Terra

Open source tools for geophysics

Web design and Development

Diana Acero
Personal website.
Geolatinas coding group
A website to show what the coding group is and their activities.
Dashboard
A COVID-19 data visualization from Argentina.
Dashboard
Dashboard for Argentina COVID-19 data using plotly and dash.
Garabatos
A site for my paintings.
CromoGráfica
Business website currently under development.

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

2019 - 2022
Assistant professor in Physics I, Departamento de Geología, FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de San Juan
2019 - 2022
Assistant professor in Physics II, Departamento de Geología, FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de San Juan

Workshops and Tutorials

2022

Mandyoc: A finite element code to simulate thermochemical convection in parallel presented at Transform 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzrIF4zpshM&feature=emb_title

2022

Introduction to Python for CoCo Program

https://github.com/CodeToCommunicate/CoCoLessons

2021

Introduction to Git and GitHub for GeoLatinas

https://github.com/GeoLatinas/intro-to-git-2021

2021

Tutorial: Processing gravity data with Harmonica presented at Transform 2020, Software Underground

https://github.com/fatiando/transform21

2020

How to manage multi-dimensional arrays? Online seminar of the laboratorio de tectonofisica from IAG-USP

https://github.com/aguspesce/online_seminar_IAG-USP

2017

Introductory course to LaTeX: How to produce high quality documents, Secretaría de Extensión, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina

https://santisoler.github.io/teaching/latex.html

Last Publications

Peer-reviewed papers

2022

Mandyoc: A finite element code to simulate thermochemical convection in parallel, Journal of Open-Source Software, 7(71), 4070

Sacek, V; Assunção, J; Pesce, A; Monteiro da Silva, R

https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.04070.pdf

2021

Sección eléctrica cortical a través de la fosa de Loncopué, Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 78 (2), 333-337

Pesce, A; Giménez, M; Bibiana, C; Gianni, G; Folguera, A

https://revista.geologica.org.ar/raga/article/view/246

2020

Oligocene to present shallow subduction beneath the southern Puna plateau, Tectonophysics

Gianni, G. M; García, H; Pesce, A; Lupari, M; González, M; Giambiagi, L.

doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228402

Books Chapters

2020

Pliocene to Quaternary Retroarc Extension in the Neuquén Basin: Geophysical Characterization of the Loncopué Trough, Opening and closure of the Neuquén Basin in the Southern Andes, Springer

Pesce, A; Gianni, G; Giménez, M. E; Folguera, A

doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-29680-3

2020

Plume Subduction Beneath the Neuquén Basin and the Last Mountain Building Stage of the Southern Central Andes, Opening and Closure of the Neuquén Basin in the Southern Andes, Springer

Gianni, G; Pesce, A; García, H. P. A; Lupari, M; Correa-Otto, S; Nacif, S; Folguera, A

doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-29680-3

Conference proceedings and Talks

2021

Fatiando a Terra: Open-source tools for geophysics, Online talk given to the Geophysical Society of Houston (GSH)

Uieda, L; Soler, S. R. and Pesce, A

https://github.com/fatiando/2021-gsh

2021

Harmonica and Boule: Modern Python tools for geophysical gravimetry, EGU2021 General Assembly

Uieda, L; Soler, S. R; Pesce, A; Perozzi, L and Wieczorek, M. A

doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-8291

2020

Evaluation of the presence of a weak layer in the numerical simulation of lithospheric subduction, EGU2020 General Assembly

Agustina Pesce and Victor Sacek

doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-734

Technical Skills

Programming
Python, Numba, bash, FORTRAN, C
Markup
Markdown, LaTeX, HTML
WebDev
CSS, Bootstrap, Milligram, Normalize
DevOps
GNU/Linux, Unix terminal, VIM, Neovim, VS Code, git, GNU Make, SSH
Graphic Design
Inkscape, GIMP, Krita
Other tools
Libre Office suite, JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebooks, GitHub, Google Cloud Platform
Geophysics tools
Oasis Montaj, GMT, “Fateando a Terra”

Languages

Spanish
Native
English
Intermediate

Communities

Since 2021
Las de Sistema
Since 2021
The Carpentries
Since 2020
Geolatinas
Since 2020
Software Underground

https://aguspesce.github.io