JJ Kavelaars
Astronomer at The University of British Columbia
Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJJ Kavelaars is an astronomer with 14+ years of experience discovering and tracking small bodies in the outer Solar System, currently based in Victoria, Australia and working at the National Research Council Canada. He combines observational astronomy, data analysis, and computational methods to detect and follow Trans-Neptunian Objects and supervise Kuiper belt research. As an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia and University of Victoria, he mentors graduate students on observational campaigns and orbital dynamics. His career blends long-term survey science with hands-on discovery work dating back to postdoctoral and graduate research, and he brings a rare mix of practical telescope experience and software-driven data processing to planetary science.
14 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at Queen's UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Theoretical Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Theoretical Physics at University of Guelph
English
Github Skills (54)
simulate10
python10
astronomy10
discovery10
ctypes10
core-library9
fuse9
orbital-mechanics9
pipeline9
astropy9
astrology9
astrodynamics9
cli9
science9
orbit9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
canfar/python-canfar-clients
May 2016 - Dec 2022
Python client libraries and command-line utilities for interacting with CANFAR and CADC web services
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 6 years 8 months
command-line-utilitiespythonweb-servicespython-clientclient-libraries
ijiraq/gemini_processing
May 2020 - May 2022
scripts and stuff to process gemini data witin the CADC.
Contributions:6 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
geminigemini-datapython
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