Edgar Castro
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEdgar Castro is an environmental epidemiologist and technically adept postdoctoral researcher at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a decade of experience applying geospatial and computational methods to health disparities and environmental exposure assessment. He builds hyperlocal, nationwide models of near-road land surface and air temperatures, merges and harmonizes large, multi-decade demographic and environmental datasets, and develops reproducible data pipelines that support dose–response and vulnerability analyses. Edgar combines strong programming and data-engineering skills—ranging from Python, Apache Spark, and machine learning to customized geocoding and sensor platforms—with domain expertise in air pollution, flooding, and heat impacts. He has a track record of translating complex spatial data into policy-relevant insights, mentoring students, and contributing technical solutions for NGOs and municipal partners. Notably, his work leverages half-century longitudinal data to reveal how vulnerability to environmental stressors has shifted across decades, enabling more equitable exposure assessments.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering at Northeastern UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental Epidemiology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Github Skills (70)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ercas/dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
urbaninformaticsandresiliencelab/gmaps_scraper
Jul 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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