Ryan Ridden-harper
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Canterbury
Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Ridden-harper is an astrophysicist and postdoctoral researcher with eight years’ experience applying advanced data analysis and Python to time-domain astronomy, currently hunting unknown transients in Kepler and TESS data from the University of Canterbury. He holds a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from ANU and has held research positions at the Space Telescope Science Institute, combining rigorous observational expertise with strong LaTeX and computational skills. Beyond research, he has substantial experience organising public outreach and science media, translating complex results for diverse audiences. Trained in mathematical physics, he brings a firm theoretical grounding to practical pipeline development and transient detection, and often bridges academic research with community engagement.
8 years of coding experience
Australian National UniversityHonours in Mathematical Physics, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Honours in Mathematical Physics, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at University of CanterburyNCEA level 3, NCEA level 3 at Hagley Community College
English
Github Skills (31)
transient10
k29
reduction9
python8
kepler8
astrophysics8
astronomy8
core-library7
data-repository7
time-series7
moa7
science6
astropy6
pipeline6
logging4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CheerfulUser/calibrimbore
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:50 commits, 12 PRs, 55 pushes in 8 months
CheerfulUser/TESSreduce
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Transient focused reduction for TESS data
Contributions:103 commits, 35 PRs, 309 pushes in 2 years
reductionfocusedtesstransient
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