About Me
Education: I am an international undergraduate student at Westminster College, Utah. I was born and raised in
Lima, Peru and decided to move to Salt Lake City to pursue a Bachelor of Science in a liberal arts college because I
like collaborative and hands-on learning environments. I am currently an honors physics and math student with
an emphasis in data science. This experience has taught me how to be an independent thinker, respect learning as a
process itself, and constantly ask questions to further my knowledge.
Research Interests: I want to pursue a PhD in experimental astrophysics.
I am particularly interested in researching how black holes and dark matter affect galaxy evolution.
Publications:
Research
Using Astronomical CCD Imagery Techniques for the Studye of Urban Light Domes at a Small College
On the summer of 2018, I worked on a computing research project at Westminster College. Our objective
was to create an image processing pipeline that could take CCD images of the entire night sky and plot its
levels of sky brightness.
Github link: CCD imaging technique in Python
Space Telescope Science Institute Internship
During the summer of 2019, I was an intern for the
Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. For this project, I worked with the institute’s
web development team under the guidance of Matt Scilipoti to create a computer-accessible application
programming interface (API) that will allow scientists and the public to utilize the observation schedules
of the Hubble Space Telescope. In addition to creating this publicly-available API, I designed a web application,
Space Telescope Live, that makes calls to the API and retrieves information about Hubble’s current observations.
Web application link: Space Telescope Live
Contact
Email: ndr0713@westminstercollege.edu
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