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    <p class="hero-kicker">Research software engineering / computational physics</p>
    <h1>Justin Kin Jun Hew</h1>
    <p class="hero-role">Research Software Engineer, Ice Sheet Modelling<br>ACCESS-NRI / Australian National University</p>
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      I build reliable scientific software and study the computational physics of complex flows,
      from turbulent dynamos and shock dynamics to ice-sheet modelling workflows.
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      <span><strong>Based in</strong> Canberra, Australia</span>
      <span><strong>Working on</strong> open scientific software</span>
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      <p class="section-label">01 / Current focus</p>
      <h2>Questions that move between equations and infrastructure.</h2>
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        <li>Ice-sheet modelling software</li>
        <li>High-order numerical methods</li>
        <li>MHD turbulence &amp; dynamos</li>
        <li>Shock and rarefied gas dynamics</li>
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      <p class="section-label">02 / Selected work</p>
      <h2>Recent publications</h2>
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        <li><em>Conservation of magnetic-helicity fluctuations due to spatial decorrelation of fluxes in decaying MHD turbulence</em><span>Journal of Plasma Physics / 2026</span></li>
        <li><em>Strongly stable dual-pairing summation by parts finite difference schemes for the vector invariant nonlinear shallow water equations</em><span>Journal of Computational Physics / 2025</span></li>
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    <p class="section-label">03 / Elsewhere</p>
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      <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5238-6115"><strong>ORCID</strong><span>0000-0002-5238-6115</span></a>
      <a href="https://www.access-nri.org.au/person/justin-kin-jun-hew/"><strong>ACCESS-NRI</strong><span>Staff profile</span></a>
      <a href="https://github.com/justinh2002"><strong>GitHub</strong><span>justinh2002</span></a>
      <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Kin-Jun-Hew"><strong>ResearchGate</strong><span>Research profile</span></a>
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