N Kuin
Swift UVOT Calibration Scientist And Astronomer
Mole Valley, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolN Kuin is a seasoned astronomer and calibration scientist with over 30 years of experience designing, building and operating astronomical data systems and instrument calibrations, currently maintaining the Swift UVOT and producing its grism analysis software. He has led astronomical data centre modernization for NASA, introducing automated ingest, validation and distribution workflows and pioneering early web access to catalogs using NoSQL approaches. His work spans theory, observation and instrumentation—from solar and stellar physics models to systems engineering for Earth-observing missions—and includes building pipelines that processed raw images into multi-mission source catalogs of over ten million objects. He implemented Python-based calibration and classification tools for UV/optical instruments and applied probabilistic classification at scale to XMM-OM and Swift-UVOT catalogs. Based in Mole Valley, England, he blends deep academic training (Dr in Astrophysics) with practical software and project leadership, and he aims to apply this systems-thinking to lunar landing technology that minimizes fuel mass. A less obvious strength is his history of translating scientist-developed algorithms into production-ready, mission-critical software and ground systems.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Dr of Mathematics and Physics, Astrophysics, Dr of Mathematics and Physics, Astrophysics at Rijksuniversiteit UtrechtHBS-B, Beta-subjects,Business,Accounting, 9 out of 10, HBS-B, Beta-subjects,Business,Accounting, 9 out of 10 at st Maartenscollege Maastricht
Github Skills (41)
python10
astronomy10
core-library10
orbital-mechanics10
astrophysics10
astrology10
science10
astrodynamics10
spectral9
extraction9
astropy9
gtk8
notebook8
jupyter8
qt8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PaulKuin/uvotpy
Oct 2013 - Aug 2022
Contributions:11 releases, 186 commits, 13 PRs in 8 years 11 months
spectralextractionswiftuvot
PaulKuin/astropy
Oct 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 8 years 5 months
astropypythoncore-package
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