Neil Cook
Research Staff at Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolNeil Cook is an astrophysics research staff scientist with a decade of experience building data pipelines for cutting-edge near-infrared instruments (SPIRou, NIRPS, JWST/NIRISS, ANDES) to detect exoplanets and characterize cool-star and ultracool atmospheres. He combines hands-on Python engineering with observational expertise—having led searches for brown dwarfs, free-floating planets, unresolved ultracool companions, and late-M dwarf planets using facilities from CFHT and La Silla to Kepler and Spitzer. A PhD from the University of Hertfordshire, he has a strong publication record on methods for identifying ultracool companions and low-mass star characterization. Beyond code and telescopes, he brings interdisciplinary skills across several languages (C/C++, Java, MATLAB, IDL, Fortran) and a creative side in space art and piano performance that often informs his scientific visualization work.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, First Class Honours Degree, Master's degree, Physics, First Class Honours Degree at The University of ManchesterDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at University of HertfordshireA Level, GCSE, A Level, GCSE at Queensbury Upper School, Dunstable
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
high-resolution10
drs10
astrophysics10
pipeline10
line-by-line8
read-the-docs6
python-sphinx6
table-of-contents6
restructuredtext6
matplotlib4
python4
exposure2
numpy2
visualize2
approximate2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
njcuk9999/sossisse
Jun 2023 - Jun 2026
SOSS Inspired SpectroScopic Extraction
Contributions:5 PRs, 126 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years
njcuk9999/apero-drs
Oct 2017 - Mar 2023
A PipelinE to Reduce Observations - The DRS for SPIRou (CFHT)
Contributions:3 reviews, 10302 commits, 30 PRs in 5 years 6 months
drsastrophysicsdata-reductionexoplanetshigh-resolution
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