Chris Garling
PhD Candidate
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Garling is a PhD candidate in astrophysics at The Ohio State University with nine years of research experience probing halo substructure and searching for dwarf galaxies using resolved stellar populations. He combines observational data analysis—from Dark Energy Camera imaging to time-series work on RR Lyrae—with Bayesian and MCMC techniques developed during undergraduate research, and codes primarily in Python (and previously IDL) to calibrate and characterize faint satellites. Now collaborating with Annika Peter and working as a Near-Field Cosmology Prize Research Associate at the University of Virginia with Nitya Kallivayalil, he focuses on dwarf galaxy cosmology and quenching across local volumes. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Chris brings a track record of poster and summer-research outputs and a knack for turning careful stellar variability studies into insights about galaxy formation at the faint end.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Astrophysics, Bachelor’s Degree, Astrophysics at Haverford CollegeCentral York High School
English
Github Skills (84)
statistics10
julia10
probability10
distributions10
astronomy9
quantities9
transport9
traits9
data-science9
image-server9
calculator8
mat8
mass8
astrophysics8
online-algorithms7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cgarling/Cosmology.jl
Aug 2022 - Nov 2024
Cosmological calculations in Julia
Contributions:15 PRs, 84 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 3 months
calculationsastrophysicsastrodynamicscosmologyorbital-mechanics
cgarling/AperPhot-DS9
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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