Dan Wilkins
Research Assistant Professor Of Astronomy at Cunard Line
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolDan Wilkins is a Research Assistant Professor of Astronomy at The Ohio State University with a decade of experience probing how accreting supermassive black holes power the Universe’s brightest sources. He blends observational astronomy, theoretical modelling and high-performance simulations with statistics, data science and ML to design next-generation X-ray missions and to augment detectors with AI for enhanced sensitivity. A former Einstein and Kavli fellow, he has led collaborations with NASA, ESA and JAXA and moves fluidly between telescope data, ray-tracing simulations of light near black holes, and novel analysis pipelines. He is also a committed science communicator—regularly lecturing at sea and on broadcast media—and brings uncommon industry experience from running a web-hosting business, giving him practical skills in software, servers and product delivery alongside deep astrophysics expertise.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy at University of CambridgeHigh School, High School at King Alfred's
French, German
Github Skills (3)
python9
ray1
spectral1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wilkinsdr/pyLag
Mar 2017 - Dec 2022
X-ray spectral timing in Python
Contributions:466 commits, 7 PRs, 389 pushes in 5 years 10 months
python
wilkinsdr/pyXtract
Apr 2018 - May 2026
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
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