Jo Bovy
Chair, David A. Dunlap Department Of Astronomy And Astrophysics at University of Toronto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJo Bovy is Chair of the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and a Professor at the University of Toronto with 17 years of academic experience studying galaxy dynamics, formation, and the Milky Way. His research blends theoretical astrophysics with large-scale data analysis and machine learning to place astrophysical constraints on dark matter. An active open-source developer, he has contributed backend fixes and robust testing to the widely used astropy library, improving CDS header parsing and I/O reliability for the community. He trained at NYU (PhD in Physics) and spent a formative period as a long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study, bringing both deep theory and practical software craftsmanship to reproducible science.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at New York University
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Github Skills (7)
astropy10
data-parsing10
python10
astronomy10
astrophysics9
unit-testing9
orbit6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astropy
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Astronomy and astrophysics core library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 19 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jo primarily contributed to the `astropy/astropy` repository by modifying and improving the `astropy.io.ascii` module, specifically related to parsing CDS header files. Their work involved addressing issues with multi-line descriptions, unit parsing, and whitespace handling in the CDS header parser. The user also implemented tests to validate these fixes and improvements, demonstrating a focus on data parsing and input/output functionality within the astronomy and astrophysics domain.
astrologypythonscienceastrophysicsastrodynamics
jobovy/dyn-modeling-streams-2014
Aug 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 4 months
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