Cayman Unterborn
Senior Research Scientist, Space Instruments And Payload Department at Southwest Research Institute
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolCayman Unterborn is a senior research scientist and people-centered project leader with 13 years of experience translating interdisciplinary planetary science into actionable results for federal stakeholders like NASA and NSF. As Deputy PI on a $6M NASA consortia and long-time lead of computational core chemistry modeling, he blends hands-on Python/Jupyter development and open-source tooling with program management to deliver cross-institutional science. He has a track record of building teams and workflows that let geoscientists and astronomers collaborate effectively, producing publications, national presentations, and multimillion-dollar proposals. Formerly an educator with Teach For America, he excels at distilling complex ideas into clear training and reports, having taught software classes to ~50 students and created tools for non-experts. Based in Tempe, AZ, he pairs a PhD in Geosciences with a knack for synthesizing disk-to-interior planetary composition models—bringing both domain depth and practical engineering to exoplanet research.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (13)
solver10
mantle10
thermodynamics10
modeling10
physics9
mass9
hydrodynamics9
geophysics9
geoscience9
calculator8
python8
composition6
radius6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CaymanUnterborn/ArCCoS
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
CaymanUnterborn/ExoPlex
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
A thermodynamically self-consistent mass-radius-composition calculator
Contributions:2 commits, 89 PRs, 104 pushes in 1 day
compositionradiusinteriorsconsistentcalculator
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