About the Author

Hugo Solis is an assistant professor in the physics department at the University of Costa Rica. In the same institution, he collaborates with CITIC and CICIMA. His current research interests include computational cosmology, complexity, and the influence of hydrogen on material properties. He has wide experience in languages, including C/C++ and Python for scientific programming and visualization. He is a member of the Free Software Foundation and has contributed code to some free software projects. He has also been a technical reviewer for Mastering Object-oriented Python, Kivy: Interactive Applications in Python, and Learning Object-Oriented Programming by Packt Publishing. Currently, he is in charge of the IFT, a Costa Rican scientific nonprofit organization for the multidisciplinary practice of physics (http://iftucr.org).