Brian Stalder
Staff Scientist at Rubin Observatory
La Serena, Coquimbo Region, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Stalder is a Staff Scientist with eight years of experience leading commissioning and instrumentation efforts at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, building on a decade-plus career in observational astronomy and experimental physics. With a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Hawaii and postdoctoral tenures at Harvard and the Institute for Astronomy, he combines deep research rigor with hands-on systems engineering for large optical facilities. He is skilled in Matlab, Mathematica, LaTeX and spectroscopy, and has driven practical solutions for complex instrument commissioning and data-quality challenges. Based in Vicuña, Chile, Brian blends on-site operational leadership with software-driven analysis, often bridging the gap between telescope hardware and scientific pipelines. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates physics insight into durable engineering practices during critical observatory build and commissioning phases.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Github Skills (17)
square9
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jupyter-notebook6
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galsim2
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bstalder/notebooks
Jun 2018 - Jun 2026
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 1 month
lsst-so/notebooks
May 2018 - Aug 2019
A collection point for Commissioning related Jupyter notebooks
Contributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 2 months
jupyter-notebook
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