cv

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Basics

Name John R. Weaver
Label Astrophysicist / Brinson Prize Fellow
Email john.weaver.astro@gmail.com
Url https://astroweaver.github.io
Summary John R. Weaver is a Brinson Prize Fellow at MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. He holds a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Copenhagen and an MPhys (Honours) from the University of St Andrews, with extensive experience in photometry, spectroscopy, and data handling in astrophysics. For a complete overview of his career, refer to his full CV.

Work

Education

  • 2018 - 2022
    PhD
    University of Copenhagen
    Astrophysics
    • Thesis: COSMOS2020: Insights into galaxy assembly and evolution over the first 10 billion years, with Sune Toft
  • 2013 - 2018
    MPhys (Honours) with Astrophysics
    University of St Andrews
    Astrophysics
    • Thesis: Exploring the origins of bimodality: post-starburst galaxies at z < 0.1, with Vivienne Wild
  • 2012 - 2013
    Scholarship Program (2 courses)
    Connecticut College
    Astronomy

Awards

Skills

Astronomy
Swarp
PSFEx
SourceExtractor
The Farmer
The Tractor
aperpy
EAzY
LePHARE
Bagpipes
Prospector
pPXF
grism spectroscopy
integral field spectroscopy
msaexp
Statistics
Bayesian inference
MCMC
PCA
k-means
Gaussian mixture models
UMAP
self-organizing maps
random forests
CNNs
GANs
Programming
Python
FORTRAN (77, 95)
Git/GitHub
Web Development
Jekyll
Python-Django
MySQL
HTML
CSS