Jonathan Gagné
Scientific Advisor at Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJonathan Gagné is an astrophysics researcher and Scientific Advisor at the Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan in Montreal with 11 years of experience studying brown dwarfs, exoplanets, and young stellar associations. He combines observational expertise—over 200 nights across major telescopes and near-infrared spectroscopy—with large-scale data analysis, notably exploiting ESA Gaia’s transformative astrometry to map the Solar neighborhood. His career includes prestigious fellowships (NASA Sagan, Banting) and an academic role as Associate Professor at Université de Montréal, where he developed Bayesian methods to identify low-mass and planetary-mass objects. Jonathan advises public-facing planetarium exhibits, bridging research and science communication, and maintains an unexpected sideline as a coffee-brewing blogger at coffeeadastra.com. He is skilled at integrating precision radial-velocity and atmospheric retrieval techniques to characterize isolated and companion giant planets.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrophysics at Université de Montréal
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
particle10
classifier9
sun8
python8
bayesian8
adam8
astronomy8
orbital-mechanics7
finder7
open-access6
astropy6
astrology6
imaging6
journal6
php5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jgagneastro/FireHose_v2
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 6 months
jgagneastro/coffeegrindsize
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
Detects the individual coffee grounds in a white-background picture to determine particle size distribution
Contributions:120 commits, 27 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
individualpythonparticlecoffeepicture
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