Chris Garling
PhD Candidate
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Garling is a PhD candidate in astrophysics at The Ohio State University with nine years of research experience probing halo substructure and searching for dwarf galaxies using resolved stellar populations. He combines observational data analysis—from Dark Energy Camera imaging to time-series work on RR Lyrae—with Bayesian and MCMC techniques developed during undergraduate research, and codes primarily in Python (and previously IDL) to calibrate and characterize faint satellites. Now collaborating with Annika Peter and working as a Near-Field Cosmology Prize Research Associate at the University of Virginia with Nitya Kallivayalil, he focuses on dwarf galaxy cosmology and quenching across local volumes. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Chris brings a track record of poster and summer-research outputs and a knack for turning careful stellar variability studies into insights about galaxy formation at the faint end.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Astrophysics, Bachelor’s Degree, Astrophysics at Haverford CollegeCentral York High School
English
Github Skills (146)
astronomy10
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statistics10
julia10
data-science10
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orbital-mechanics9
astrology9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cgarling/InitialMassFunctions.jl
Jul 2022 - Jun 2026
Evaluation of and sampling from stellar initial mass functions
Contributions:16 PRs, 109 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years 11 months
evaluationstellarinitialsamplingmass
cgarling/AperPhot-DS9
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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