JJ Kavelaars
Astronomer at The University of British Columbia
Victoria, Canada
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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 (42)
python10
astronomy10
discovery10
command-line10
ctypes10
dxf9
simulate9
pipeline9
astropy9
science9
cad8
brep8
infrastructure8
astrophysics8
core-library8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ijiraq/findMoving
Jul 2020 - May 2026
Find moving objects in HSC images processed through the LSST Science Pipeline
Contributions:1 release, 176 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 11 months
hsclsstsciencepipeline
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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