Monica Sircar
Graduate Research Assistant, Hollyhock Research
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMonica Sircar is a qualitative education researcher and seasoned science educator with 11 years of experience designing curriculum, coaching teachers, and leading professional learning across K-12 and higher education. Currently a Graduate Research Assistant at Hollyhock Research and a Senior Fellow with Knowles, she blends systems thinking and coherence-driven curriculum design to build programs that prepare learners to tackle urgent societal challenges. Monica has led large-scale curriculum initiatives—redesigning 6th–12th science programs for NGSS and piloting project-based, blended learning at Summit Public Schools—while also teaching and training preservice teachers at Stanford. She pairs deep classroom experience with research rigor (PhD work in Science Education) and a knack for iterative, “fly-the-plane-as-we-build-it” problem solving. Outside education, she contributes to open-source scientific software (notably work on the SunPy project), reflecting a rare cross-domain fluency in science, data, and pedagogy. Colleagues describe her as community-oriented and detail-focused, cultivating joyful, humanizing teams that connect practice to purpose.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Science Education, Master's degree, Science Education at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Science Education, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Science Education at Stanford University Graduate School of EducationHuman Biology, with Honors, Neuroscience, Human Biology, with Honors, Neuroscience at Stanford University
English, Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (8)
git10
python10
matplotlib10
astrophysics9
solar9
testing8
documentation8
astronomy8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sunpy/sunpy
May 2018 - Apr 2021
SunPy - Python for Solar Physics
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 18 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Monica primarily contributed to the SunPy project by integrating and organizing examples, refactoring, and correcting plotting code, as well as by resolving conflicts. Their work included modifying example gallery files, adding contribution guidelines, updating documentation, and correcting the example data. Furthermore, they are seen to be working on updating CITATION.rst.
physicspythonsolarsimulationpython-3
mbobra/mapping-solar-flares
Dec 2014 - Dec 2021
Contributions:30 commits, 17 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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