Neil Cook
Research Staff at Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolNeil Cook is an astrophysics research staff scientist with a decade of experience building data pipelines for cutting-edge near-infrared instruments (SPIRou, NIRPS, JWST/NIRISS, ANDES) to detect exoplanets and characterize cool-star and ultracool atmospheres. He combines hands-on Python engineering with observational expertise—having led searches for brown dwarfs, free-floating planets, unresolved ultracool companions, and late-M dwarf planets using facilities from CFHT and La Silla to Kepler and Spitzer. A PhD from the University of Hertfordshire, he has a strong publication record on methods for identifying ultracool companions and low-mass star characterization. Beyond code and telescopes, he brings interdisciplinary skills across several languages (C/C++, Java, MATLAB, IDL, Fortran) and a creative side in space art and piano performance that often informs his scientific visualization work.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, First Class Honours Degree, Master's degree, Physics, First Class Honours Degree at The University of ManchesterDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at University of HertfordshireA Level, GCSE, A Level, GCSE at Queensbury Upper School, Dunstable
French, English
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Github Skills (29)
drs10
pipeline10
read-the-docs6
python-sphinx6
table-of-contents6
restructuredtext6
matplotlib4
python4
scientific-visualization3
sun3
planet3
atmosphere3
planets3
numpy2
orbital-mechanics2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
njcuk9999/apero-drs
Oct 2017 - Mar 2023
A PipelinE to Reduce Observations - The DRS for SPIRou (CFHT)
Contributions:3 reviews, 10302 commits, 28 PRs in 5 years 6 months
drspipelineobservationscfht
njcuk9999/sossisse
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
SOSS Inspired SpectroScopic Extraction
Contributions:5 PRs, 75 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
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