Steven Christe
Principal Investigator For The MeDDEA Instrument On PADRE
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Christe is a research astrophysicist and mission lead with 15+ years at NASA Goddard, currently serving as Principal Investigator for the MeDDEA instrument on PADRE and leading both the Space Weather Science Operations Center and Heliophysics Strategic Technology Office. He combines deep scientific expertise—holding a Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley—with program leadership in developing new heliophysics missions and partnerships. An operational scientist who runs multi-mission centers, he also contributes to open-source scientific software, improving metadata handling and API documentation for the widely used SunPy solar physics library. Known for bridging instrument development, mission operations, and community tools, he brings a rare mix of hands-on technical work and strategic program-building to space weather and solar physics.
15 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor’s Degree, Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics at Stony Brook University
English, French, French
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Github Skills (10)
astropy10
python10
documentation10
fits9
matplotlib8
numpy8
xcode6
objective-c6
mediawiki6
x116
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sunpy/sunpy
Mar 2011 - May 2020
SunPy - Python for Solar Physics
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 1029 commits, 70 PRs in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to the maintenance and documentation of the sunpy project, focusing on the handling of metadata in FITS files, improving the plot formatting and the display of results. The user also worked on standardizing the documentation, especially of the code and instrument-specific classes. These changes mainly concerned the API.
physicspythonsolarsimulationpython-3
ehsteve/ipython-notebooks
Mar 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:58 commits, 24 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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