Carolina Odman
Associate Professor
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolCarolina Odman is a Swiss-trained engineer and Cambridge-educated astrophysicist with 11 years of experience applying data-driven science and technology to development and research across Africa and beyond. As an Associate Professor at the University of the Western Cape and Associate Director for Development & Outreach at the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy, she blends academic rigor with strategic program building and stakeholder engagement. Her background spans theoretical cosmology, Bayesian statistics and big-data platforms, paired with hands-on engineering skills from fluid dynamics to web integrations. Carolina has led capacity-building initiatives such as AIMS-NEI and Universe Awareness, securing major grants and creating international education and outreach networks. She is equally comfortable supervising research, designing e-tools to enable science in developing countries, and hacking (the good kind) on technology and photography projects. That mix of deep technical training, practical problem-solving and proven program leadership makes her adept at turning complex scientific goals into scalable social impact.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Astrophysics, Cosmology, Statistics, Ph.D., Astrophysics, Cosmology, Statistics at University of CambridgeM.Sc., Physics Engineering, M.Sc., Physics Engineering at EPFL
French, Dutch, Swedish, spanish/italian, German, English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (5)
collector4
issue-tracking3
anaconda1
api1
astronomy1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
carolune/DMA
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
carolune/topical-data-analysis
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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