Jane Rigby
JWST Senior Project Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJane Rigby is the JWST Senior Project Scientist at NASA Goddard with over a decade of hands-on leadership directing operations and scientific strategy for the most powerful space telescope ever built. A trained astrophysicist with a PhD from the University of Arizona, she has progressed from postdoctoral fellowships to senior civil-servant roles shaping JWST commissioning, operations, and community engagement. Her work bridges deep technical expertise in observational astrophysics with program-level decision making, including service on the Astro2020 Decadal Survey panel assessing the field’s priorities and societal impacts. Based in Greenbelt, Maryland, she combines rigorous research credentials with a knack for translating complex instrument capabilities into high-impact science programs that enable breakthrough discoveries.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBS, BS, Physics, Astronomy, BS, BS, Physics, Astronomy at Penn State UniversityUniversity of DelawareBrookings Executive Education
Spanish
Github Skills (40)
python10
astronomy10
core-library10
orbital-mechanics10
astrophysics10
astrology10
astropy10
region10
science10
astrodynamics10
jupyter-book5
ccd5
cosmology4
gis4
viewer3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
janerigby/jrr
Jul 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:239 commits, 220 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
JWST-Templates/Notebooks
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Notebooks released by the JWST ERS TEMPLATES team, to reduce and analyze JWST data
Contributions:1 review, 41 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
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