Susan Mullally
Scientist at Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSusan Mullally is a scientist and leader who directs NASA's Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes and shapes the Data Science Mission Office at STScI, bringing over a decade of experience turning space telescope data into scientific insight. A Ph.D. astrophysicist, she has driven data products and community engagement for Kepler, TESS, and JWST—helping design access methods, curate time-series exoplanet catalogs, and separate true transits from systematic and astrophysical false positives. Her career blends hands-on research on stars, planets, and white-dwarf planets with strategic archive-building and mission science roles, including deputy project scientist for JWST. She also contributes to open-source efforts, improving educational and analysis notebooks used by the community to make TESS data more accessible and reproducible.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Physics, B.A., Physics at Hanover CollegePh.D., M.S., Astrophysics, Ph.D., M.S., Astrophysics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spanish
Github Skills (4)
notebook10
data-analysis10
astronomy9
fits8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
spacetelescope/notebooks
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
Curated Notebooks from STScI
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:2 reviews, 32 commits, 11 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Susan primarily cleaned up and organized a notebook focused on analyzing TESS data. This involved modifications to the notebook style, which included the introduction of a new section, new images, text, plots and more. The user's changes showcase a focus on clarifying explanations and better demonstrating the data analysis workflow.
maststscinotebooksastronomyspacex
spacetelescope/exovetter
Jul 2020 - Sep 2022
Exoplanet vetting
Contributions:30 reviews, 119 commits, 38 PRs in 2 years 1 month
exoplanetastronomyverificationexoplanet-transitsexoplanets
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