Renée Spiewak
PhD Candidate
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRenée Spiewak is a pulsar astronomer and PhD-trained researcher with nine years of experience bridging observational astronomy and scientific software development. Based at Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and now located in Milwaukee, she combines hands-on pulsar observing with Python-based tooling and LaTeX-centric research workflows. Her background spans rigorous astrophysics training (PhD, Swinburne) and an honors B.S. in Physics with an astronomy emphasis and French, reflecting both technical depth and communication skills. Known for leadership in research settings, she contributes to pulsar and general astronomy software, translating complex data into reproducible science. Less obvious: she pairs precision instrumentation experience with a knack for making research software approachable for collaborators across institutions.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science with Honors (B.S.), Physics w/ Astronomy Emphasis & French Minor, 3.87 GPA, Bachelor of Science with Honors (B.S.), Physics w/ Astronomy Emphasis & French Minor, 3.87 GPA at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
French, English
Github Skills (5)
pint9
python-modules9
code-review8
python8
pulsar8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
respiewak/psrqpy
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
A python module to query the ATNF pulsar catalogue
Contributions:22 PRs, 12 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
cataloguequerypythonpulsarpython-module
respiewak/pulsar_work
Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:12 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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