Martin Dyer
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMartin Dyer is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sheffield with around a decade of experience building control and scheduling software for robotic telescope networks. His primary focus is the GOTO project, where he develops, monitors, and maintains distributed observatory systems to enable rapid transient follow-up. Trained as an astronomer with a PhD from Sheffield and an MPhys from Durham, he combines deep domain knowledge with practical engineering in production observatory software. A member of RSE-Sheffield, he bridges research and research-software engineering best practices, contributing to GOTO and HiPERCAM toolchains. Colleagues rely on him for reliable automation and operational resilience across a global instrument network, and he brings an experimentalist’s attention to performance tuning and system observability.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Physics - MPhys, Physics and Astronomy, Master of Physics - MPhys, Physics and Astronomy at Durham UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astronomy at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (34)
goto10
telescope10
baduk10
alerts9
astronomy9
core-library9
observation9
python9
astrophysics9
orbital-mechanics9
model-fitting9
home-assistant9
science9
ifttt9
astropy8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GOTO-OBS/public_resources
Apr 2021 - Oct 2025
GOTO resources and data files for public release
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
GOTO-OBS/gtecs-alert
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
GOTO Telescope Control System: code for VOEvent alert processing
Contributions:4 reviews, 358 commits, 83 PRs in 4 years 5 months
gotoalerttelescope-controliftttalerts
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