Erin May
Senior Professional Staff at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolErin May is a Senior Professional Staff scientist and software developer at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory with eight years of experience studying transiting exoplanet atmospheres and building production-grade image processing pipelines. She earned a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Michigan and blends observational work from ground and space telescopes with atmospheric modeling and 3D circulation simulations. Erin’s day-to-day is hands-on code development (Python, IDL, Fortran) for data reduction and analysis, and she prioritizes clear verbal and written presentation alongside rigorous science. Passionate about science communication, she actively shares her research and outreach to boost public science literacy beyond the lab.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy at University of MichiganBachelor of Science (BS), Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Astrophysics at Michigan State University
Github Skills (15)
telescope10
python9
reduction9
james9
poet8
pipeline8
time-series7
simulate2
tool-kit2
simulation2
smoothing1
orange1
visualization1
altium-designer1
flux1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
erinmmay/P-MOPSS
Jul 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:74 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
erinmmay/Eureka
Feb 2022 - Feb 2025
Eureka! is a data reduction and analysis pipeline intended for time-series observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Contributions:79 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years
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