Mike Grudić
NASA Hubble Fellow at Observatories of The Carnegie Institution for Science
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Grudić is a NASA Hubble Fellow and astrophysicist with 11 years of research experience applying physics and computational methods to understand star and galaxy formation. Trained at Caltech (PhD) and Memorial University, he builds things from first principles—breaking complex systems into components, coding experiments, and rebuilding them to reveal new insights. His postdoctoral work spans Caltech, Northwestern's CIERA, and the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution, combining observational data analysis with custom simulation and software tools. Colleagues rely on him to demystify "black boxes" and deliver reproducible, well-documented pipelines that make computers "go brrrr" while answering scientific questions. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs deep domain expertise with a hacker’s curiosity to push both instrumentation and analysis forward. He’s equally comfortable deriving theory, writing production-grade code, and mentoring the next generation of researchers.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Physics and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics and Applied Mathematics at Memorial University of Newfoundland
Github Skills (25)
planets9
python9
open-access8
radiation8
journal8
cosmology7
simulation7
hydrodynamics7
creative-commons7
physics6
academia6
astrophysics5
frontend4
raycasting3
elasticsearch3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
omgspace/GHOST
Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
pythonprojectionslicegadgetsnapshots
mikegrudic/mikegrudic.github.io
Oct 2019 - Jun 2026
Contributions:192 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
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