Joseph Glaser
Staff Research Scientist at West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Glaser is a Staff Research Scientist and computational astrophysicist with 11 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale research computing infrastructure to advance pulsar timing, exoplanet, and clustered-stellar-environment science. Based at West Virginia University and serving the NANOGrav collaboration, he combines hands-on systems administration of petabyte-scale clusters with development of analysis tools that bridge simulations and observation. His background spans experimental optics, GPU-accelerated supercomputing, and teaching, giving him a rare mix of instrumentation, software, and pedagogy. Outside the lab he channels curiosity into public science outreach and creative hobbies—prop making, tabletop gaming, and history—that often inform his collaborative and practical approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physics at Drexel UniversityHBS Physics BS Mathematics Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, HBS Physics BS Mathematics Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Cleveland State University
English, German
Github Skills (133)
simulations9
insar9
clock9
stellar9
3d-reconstruction8
galaxy8
python8
image-stitching8
astronomy8
gravity8
pint8
pulsar8
astrophysics8
des8
gist7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nanograv/pint_pal
Nov 2022 - Nov 2025
A long-lived repository for NANOGrav Pulsar Timing workflows and analysis.
Contributions:8 releases, 27 reviews, 39 PRs in 3 years
workflowslonglong-livedpulsar
JPGlaser/Tycho
Jul 2016 - Jul 2022
AMUSE community code for observing star-star scattering effects on exoplanets in stellar clusters.
Contributions:7 releases, 460 commits, 36 PRs in 6 years 1 month
sentinel-1amuseinsarclustersstellar
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