Adolfo Carvalho
Graduate Student Researcher
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdolfo Carvalho is an astrophysics PhD candidate and graduate student researcher at Caltech with eight years of research experience studying young stars to uncover how our Sun and Solar System formed. He combines observational techniques like radial velocity surveys with software development—authoring a Stellarium plugin and maintaining astronomy-related code on GitHub—to model historical and physical observing scenarios. His work spans academic institutions including Rice University and the Space Telescope Science Institute, where he modeled dust reemission and constrained companion masses around T Tauri stars. Based in Houston, he brings a rare mix of rigorous data-driven analysis, hands-on instrument simulation, and science communication, grounded in dual degrees in astrophysics and mathematics.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Science Masters, Space Studies, Professional Science Masters, Space Studies at Rice UniversityCalifornia Institute of Technology
English, Portuguese, French
Github Skills (3)
reduction10
pipeline10
python9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Adolfo1519/Herschels
May 2018 - Jun 2021
A repository for the Herschels project code
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 3 years
code-project
Adolfo1519/PypeIt
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:133 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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