August Muench
Journals Data Scientist
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolAugust Muench is a Journals Data Scientist with 15 years of experience applying astrophysics rigor to publisher workflows at the American Astronomical Society, where he edits and curates data for flagship journals like ApJ and AJ. He brings a rare combination of archival preservation, database and visualization skills grounded in a PhD in Astronomy, enabling reproducible, machine-readable scholarly publishing pipelines. Prior research roles at Harvard, Caltech, and the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics underpin his ability to translate complex scientific data into robust editorial and metadata systems. Based in New Haven, he blends project management and communication strengths with hands-on technical stewardship of astronomy data products that support the research community.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPhD, PhD at University of Florida
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Github Skills (75)
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latex10
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astrophysics10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AASJournals/Tools
Dec 2015 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 10 pushes in 7 years 2 months
AASJournals/AASTeX60
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
The LaTeX style files and documentation for authoring AAS Journal (AJ/ApJ/ApJL/ApJS/PSJ/RNAAS) articles.
Contributions:7 releases, 34 commits, 26 PRs in 7 years 1 month
latexjournalsmanuscriptsastronomyaastex
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