Luca Rizzi
Program Director at National Science Foundation (NSF)
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolLuca Rizzi is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation with 11 years of professional experience focused on developing and overseeing large astronomical facilities and their data management systems. He previously led data services at the W. M. Keck Observatory, managing end-to-end data flows to maximize scientific productivity and translating observatory needs into robust software solutions. His background as an astronomer and scientific programmer gives him rare domain fluency across research, operations, and software engineering for complex scientific infrastructure. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, he combines hands-on technical leadership with grant and program oversight to shape national-scale projects. Collected experience from academic research to observatory leadership means he understands both the scientific questions and the practical data pipelines needed to answer them. His PhD in Astrophysics underpins a commitment to reproducible, data-driven science and pragmatic systems that enable discovery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at Università degli Studi di Padova
Github Skills (30)
reduction10
astronomy9
core-library9
python9
orbital-mechanics9
pipeline9
astrology9
science9
astrodynamics8
astrophysics8
ccd7
astropy7
remote-control3
binder3
zoneminder2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KeckObservatory/KCWI_GUIs
Dec 2017 - Mar 2021
A set of GUIs for KCWI operations
Contributions:6 PRs, 65 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 3 months
guiskcwigui
KeckObservatory/LRIS_Focus_GUI
Dec 2017 - May 2021
Automatic spectroscopy focus for LRIS
Contributions:3 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
pythonspectroscopy
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