Emanuele Farina
Associate Scientist
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmanuele Farina is an observational astronomer and associate scientist with eight years of professional experience and over a decade working at the intersection of astronomy and scientific computing. He has deep expertise in optical and infrared data, having designed and implemented data-reduction pipelines and faint-signal recovery software for leading observatories and institutes such as Gemini, ESO, and the Max Planck Institutes. His background spans hands-on research roles and archive engineering, enabling him to turn complex instrumental data into robust, reproducible science products. Based in the United States, he combines academic rigor from a long research career with practical software engineering practices used in production observatory environments. Notably, he has repeatedly bridged research and infrastructure work—moving between postdoctoral research, archive engineering, and operational science roles—so he understands both algorithmic challenges and deployment constraints.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico G. CasiraghiMaster's degree, Master's degree at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Spanish, English, Italian
Github Skills (4)
reduction10
pipeline10
python10
validate8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
EmAstro/EmAstro.github.io
Jan 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:135 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
EmAstro/ESOAsg
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
A collection of useful packages used to validate data for the ESO archive.
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 318 commits in 1 year 6 months
validateesoarchive
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