Nicholas Vieira
Postdoctoral Researcher at CIERA - Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Vieira is a postdoctoral researcher at CIERA with nine years of experience probing multimessenger astrophysics, specializing in neutron star mergers and their role in heavy element synthesis. He combines Bayesian statistics and machine learning to extract physical insight from scarce, high-value observational data across electromagnetic and gravitational-wave channels. His PhD and prior work at McGill involved building optical/IR data pipelines, adversarial candidate-vetting tools, and hands-on follow-up of events like GW190814, giving him practical expertise from instrument pipelines to inference. Based in Evanston, he pairs rigorous academic training with outreach and coordination experience, reflecting a talent for translating complex analyses into reproducible workflows and public-facing science.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Pure and Applied Science, Honours Pure and Applied Science at Marianopolis CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at McGill University
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (21)
python10
astrophysics10
science10
supernova10
temperature10
atomic8
orbital-mechanics8
astronomy8
cosmology8
interpretation7
database6
physics6
transient6
bayesian5
telescope5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nvieira-mcgill/alala
Jul 2019 - Feb 2023
Image stacking, astrometry, and photometry for MegaCam/WIRCam on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
Contributions:145 pushes, 1 branch, 6 issues in 3 years 7 months
photometrystackinghawaiiastronomyastrometry
nvieira-mcgill/amakihi
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
End-to-end image differencing and transient detection software
Contributions:55 commits, 47 pushes in 2 years 5 months
image-processingtransientend-to-end
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