Hollister Herhold
Researcher at American Museum of Natural History
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHollister Herhold is a researcher at the American Museum of Natural History who earned a PhD in Comparative Biology studying insect respiration across all 30 insect orders, blending morphological, molecular and micro-CT approaches to investigate evolutionary adaptations. He transitioned to academia after a career as a senior software engineer building real-time embedded systems for medical imaging, telecommunications and more, bringing rare cross-disciplinary expertise in both advanced software and specimen-based research. His background includes managing fossil prep labs and museum collections, mentorship roles in public science education, and deep familiarity with UNIX, VxWorks, C/C++ and Python. Equally comfortable in the lab, the imaging suite, or the systems stack, he picks up new programming languages and techniques rapidly and applies engineering rigor to biological questions.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleySpecialist Certificate, Specialist Certificate at Berklee College of MusicDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural HistorySB, SB at MITStanford University
Github Skills (31)
visualization10
qt10
tractography10
python10
image-processing10
ply10
volume-rendering10
computed-tomography10
image-filters10
bids10
3d-printing10
segmentation10
nifti10
medical-image-computing10
neuroimaging10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brianpatrick/cosmic-view-life
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Repository for the Cosmic View of Life project, which seeks to plot DNA samples spatially, thereby building a 3-D tree of life.
Contributions:11 PRs, 176 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year
hherhold/hherhold.github.io
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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