Rasmus Handberg
Data Management Coordinator
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
Summary
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Top SchoolRasmus Handberg is a data and systems manager with 11 years of experience, currently coordinating data management for the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Aarhus University and managing departmental systems for the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He built and continues to maintain the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Operations Center (KASOC) during and after his PhD, giving research consortia streamlined access to NASA Kepler data and demonstrating a knack for production-grade scientific infrastructure. His career blends hands-on scientific software development, postdoctoral research, and long-term data distribution stewardship across academic institutions in Denmark, the UK and Australia. Trained as an astronomer (PhD, Aarhus University), he pairs domain expertise with practical engineering to make complex astronomical datasets discoverable and reusable. An often-overlooked strength is his continuity: projects he initiated as a PhD student remain operational years later, reflecting focus on maintainability and community service.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at Aarhus UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astronomy and Astrophysics at Aarhus UniversitetStudentereksamen, Studentereksamen at Amtsgymnasiet i Hadsten
Danish, English, German
Github Skills (37)
astronomy10
classification10
astrophysics10
core-library9
cross-server9
coordinates9
machine-learning9
pipeline9
science9
space9
python8
astropy8
sphere8
nearest-neighbors7
anaconda6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tasoc/dataval
Feb 2019 - Jun 2022
TASOC Data Validation module
Contributions:14 releases, 7 PRs, 220 pushes in 3 years 4 months
validatorvalidationdata-validation
tasoc/starclass
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
Stellar Classification
Contributions:20 reviews, 533 commits, 68 PRs in 4 years 3 months
classificationmachine-learningastronomy
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