Mike Grudić
NASA Hubble Fellow at Observatories of The Carnegie Institution for Science
Los Angeles, California, United States
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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 (32)
physics8
journal8
python7
open-access7
creative-commons6
academia6
gravity4
planets4
viewer3
radiation3
random-walk3
simulation3
particle3
cosmology3
python-scripts3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mikegrudic/CrunchSnaps
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 review, 42 commits, 8 PRs in 11 months
mikegrudic/mikegrudic.github.io
Oct 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:174 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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