Daniel Wik
Associate Professor
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Wik is an associate professor and research scientist in astronomy with a decade of experience combining theoretical insight, telescope instrumentation, and software to tackle problems in X-ray astrophysics. Based at the University of Utah after research positions at NASA Goddard, he has been a NuSTAR science team member focused on detecting hard X-ray emission from galaxy clusters and characterizing in-orbit backgrounds crucial for faint-source and extended-source studies. He mentors students in observational techniques and computational methods, translating complex instrumentation calibration into reproducible analysis code. Daniel’s work bridges cosmology and high-energy astrophysics, applying careful background modeling to probe cluster physics and the expansion history of the universe.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Astrophysics at Ohio UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy at University of Virginia
Github Skills (3)
idl6
codebase5
python1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
danielrwik/reduc
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 months
danielrwik/nuutils
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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