Brooke Simmons
Professor In Astrophysics at Lancaster University
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBrooke Simmons is a Professor in Astrophysics at Lancaster University with 12 years of experience turning vast, time-sensitive astronomical datasets into scientific insight. She leads multiple teams within the Zooniverse ecosystem—building the Data Analysis Group, the Transients Group, and the Planetary Response Network—to help researchers and citizen scientists extract value from survey and Hubble-class data. Her research spans galaxy evolution, supermassive black holes, and the changing sky, and her group applies machine learning and novel data techniques to real-time and variable phenomena. A former Einstein Fellow at UC San Diego and postdoc at Oxford, she pairs deep academic credentials with practical data-science consulting experience. Based in Lancaster, UK, she combines scholarly leadership with hands-on platform design for large-scale citizen science, ensuring complex pipelines produce usable, actionable results. An often-overlooked strength is her track record of translating volunteer-generated labels into robust, publishable datasets that drive both research and humanitarian responses.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy at Yale UniversityA.B., Astrophysical Sciences, A.B., Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University
Github Skills (64)
ecology10
orange10
network-visualization9
data-management9
react9
python8
visualization8
galaxy7
api7
data-analysis7
docker7
data-visualization7
nodejs6
classification6
ruby6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vrooje/vrooje.github.io
Jul 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:46 commits, 55 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
vrooje/gzcandels_datapaper
May 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:157 commits, 9 PRs, 123 pushes in 2 years 5 months
data-releasegalaxygalaxy-zoozoocollaborative
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