Rob Kavanagh
Senior Data Scientist
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Kavanagh is a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow and data scientist based in Amsterdam with nine years’ experience developing numerical models of magnetically driven radio emission across stars, planets, and brown dwarfs. Trained as an astrophysicist (PhD work at Trinity College Dublin and Leiden University), he blends rigorous research with software development to produce reproducible, physics-driven simulation code used in academic radio-astrophysics. His recent roles at ASTRON and the University of Amsterdam emphasize building and validating computational tools that connect stellar wind theory to observable radio signatures. Comfortable moving between theory, code, and data, he brings an experimental mindset to model design and a track record of cross-institutional collaborations, including internships at ESO and DIAS. Not obviously visible from titles alone, he frequently bridges domain science and production-quality software engineering, ensuring models are both scientifically robust and practically usable by observers.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Computational Astrophysics, PhD in Computational Astrophysics at Leiden UniversityPhD in Computational Astrophysics, PhD in Computational Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin
English
Github Skills (8)
algorithms8
python7
scientific-computing7
scipy6
post-processing6
radio-astronomy5
computational-fluid-dynamics4
cpp3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
robkavanagh/maser
Jul 2023 - Mar 2026
The MASER (Magnetically interActing Stars and Exoplanets in the Radio) code developed by Kavanagh & Vedantham (2023).
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 8 months
exoplanet-detectionexoplanetsmagnetismradio-astronomy
robkavanagh/charm
Oct 2024 - May 2026
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 6 months
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