Jarle Brinchmann
Director Of Science at European Southern Observatory
Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
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.
26 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 (57)
astronomy10
core-library10
perl10
ndarray10
science10
python9
astrophysics9
subtraction9
astropy9
scientific-computing9
numerical-computing9
data-analysis9
garmin8
purge8
pca8
Programming languages (6)
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
databasedatabasesmachine-learning
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
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.