Jarle Brinchmann
Director Of Science at European Southern Observatory
Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolJarle Brinchmann is an accomplished astrophysicist and research leader with 25 years of experience probing the physical nature of celestial objects through observations, statistics, data mining and machine learning. Currently Director of Science at the European Southern Observatory and Assistant Professor at the University of Porto, he combines strategic observatory stewardship with hands-on survey leadership. He plays a top-level legacy science coordinator role for the Euclid space mission and leads a MUSE integral field spectrograph survey of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies to constrain Dark Matter properties. His career spans prominent research posts at Cambridge, Oxford, MPIA, and Leiden, reflecting deep expertise in both instrumentation and large collaborative projects. Known for translating complex astronomical datasets into physical insight, he brings a rare mix of operational leadership and active scientific curiosity to make ground- and space-based facilities maximally productive.
25 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Cand. Mag, Astrophysics, Cand. Mag, Astrophysics at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)Hov VGSPhD, Astronomy, PhD, Astronomy at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (69)
python10
astronomy10
perl10
core-library10
orbital-mechanics10
astrology10
science10
astrophysics10
astrodynamics10
numerical-computing9
subtraction9
scientific-computing9
ndarray9
purge9
astropy9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jbrinchmann/MLD2019
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Machine learning and Databases at CAUP/IA in 2019
Contributions:58 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pythondata-sciencemachine-learningdatabasesdvc
jbrinchmann/FITSIO.jl
Dec 2021 - May 2023
Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) file support for Julia
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
image-serverjpeg2000transportjuliafits
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