Bert Pablo
Staff Astronomer at AAVSO
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBert Pablo is a Staff Astronomer with over a decade of hands-on experience in astrophysics, data reduction, and signal disentanglement, specializing in multi-periodic and massive binary systems. At AAVSO he combines scientific leadership with full-stack Python/Django development, overseeing grants, technical projects, and the organization’s GitHub and membership databases. He has a strong track record of mentoring and public-facing science communication, from training citizen scientists to presenting at symposia. His research career spans postdoctoral and graduate work on Kepler and BRITE photometry, X-ray spectroscopy, and asteroseismology, yielding practical tools and wikis still used by collaborators. Known for translating complex astronomical signals into reproducible software and workflows, he excels at bridging professional research and community-driven observing programs. Based in Chelmsford, MA, he pairs a PhD in Astrophysics with bilingual roots in physics and Spanish, a detail that helps him reach diverse audiences.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics and Spanish, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics and Spanish at Vanderbilt University
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (18)
cosmology10
python10
astronomy10
orbital-mechanics10
astrology10
geodesy10
orbit10
science10
modeling10
astrodynamics10
routines2
period2
extraction1
time-series1
desktop1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bpablo/brite_obs
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Website dedicated to BRITE Observations
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
dedicatedobservations
bpablo/my-first-blog
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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