Mălin Stănescu has recently graduated King’s College with a MSc in
Theoretical Physics (2020) and holds a BSc in Mathematics from University of Cambridge (2019). He is our main developer of Umbrella software; he published a paper as a first author (Astronomy and Computing, 2021) and co-authored another (New Astronomy, 2021). Mr. Stănescu has more than 10 years of experience programming in C# (the language in which Umbrella is written) and in C (used in GPU programming, as the dialects OpenCL and CUDA). He has placed 21st (youngest in top 25) in the algorithmically-inclined Amazon TechOn Challenge (2017). Mr. Stănescu won a bronze medal as one of the 8 high school students representing Romania in the 2015 Asian Physics Olympiad (to which Romania is one of the 2 specially invited countries), and won other gold, silver and bronze medals at the National Olympiads in Physics, Mathematics, as well as Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is also a member (since 2014) of the Bucharest Astronomy Club. The research performed trough this project represents the topic for his future Ph. D. thesis.