Matt Wilkins
Chief Executive Officer at Galactic Polymath Education Studio
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Wilkins is the founder and CEO of Galactic Polymath Education Studio and a PhD-trained evolutionary biologist who has spent the past eight years translating cutting-edge research into high-quality, open-access STEM curricula and multimedia for classrooms across 31 states and 11 countries. He has helped secure $11.5M in funded proposals, contributed to 14 NSF grants, and led production of 20 curriculum units, 4 web apps, and 60+ educational videos while managing cross-disciplinary teams of educators, artists, and developers. Comfortable in both code (R, plus HTML/CSS/JS) and storytelling, he builds data pipelines, R packages, and visualizations that make complex science teachable from 3rd grade to graduate students. A published researcher with 19 peer-reviewed papers including Science and extensive international field experience, he combines rigorous quantitative skills with hands-on outreach program design. Less obvious: he pairs lab-grade analytical methods with media production experience—writing, directing, and performing content—so educational materials are both scientifically robust and engaging.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor's Degree, Double Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Spanish Linguistics, Bachelor's Degree, Double Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Spanish Linguistics at Vanderbilt University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (87)
hugo-theme9
rstudio9
ide9
netlify9
development-environment9
googleauthr8
r8
hugo8
page-builder8
rmarkdown8
transition8
open-science8
jupyter8
r-language7
forestry7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
galacticpolymath/gp-catalog
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Contributions:220 pushes in 11 months
drwilkins/rspect
Jun 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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