Elisabeth Adams
Senior Research Scientist at Planetary Science Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElisabeth Adams is a Senior Research Scientist with a decade of experience specializing in exoplanet discovery and Kuiper Belt studies, currently based in Cambridge, MA. She has led observational programs supporting Kepler/K2 science, developed data reduction pipelines in Python/IRAF, and discovered ultra-short-period planets through careful analysis of K2 data. Her career spans postdoctoral work at MIT and the Smithsonian and a long tenure at the Planetary Science Institute, combining hands-on pipeline development with peer-reviewed publication and conference presentation experience. Beyond research, she is also a published fiction writer, signaling a rare blend of technical rigor and creative storytelling that informs clear scientific communication.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Planetary Astronomy and Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Planetary Astronomy and Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of Technology
French
Github Skills (20)
planet8
stellar6
probabilistic6
false-positive6
transit6
cosmology6
validation5
pythonic5
mcmc4
grid4
python4
random-walk3
planets3
orbital-mechanics3
astronomy2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elisabethadams/superpig-public
May 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 8 pushes in 5 years 3 months
timothydmorton/VESPA
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
Validation of Exoplanet Signals using a Probabilistic Algorithm--- calculating false positive probabilities for transit signals
Contributions:1 PR, 7 comments, 2 issues in 1 year
false-positivevalidationexoplanetprobabilistictransit
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