Nathaniel Kerman

Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of Massachusetts Amherst

2025 – present

PhD (ongoing) in Astronomy

Yale University

2016 – 2020

B.S. (Honors) in Astrophysics

Honors & Awards

NASA Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) — Honorable Mention

2025

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Professional Experience

Data Systems Software Engineer III

2022 – 2025

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), CU Boulder

Science Support Analyst

2020 – 2022

Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Scientific Competencies

Scientific literature writing/reading/review

Scientific teaching and mentoring

Scientific data pipeline design

UV / Optical / IR / mm instrumentation

Technical Skills

Scientific data pipeline development

Python (NumPy, SciPy, Astropy, Plotting, Machine Learning)

Spectroscopic calibration & analysis

JWST, ALMA, Hubble / COS Data

Basic optical modeling

Git, Linux/Unix, SQL

Teaching

Instructor, ASTR 3800: Introduction to Scientific Data Analysis and Computing

University of Colorado Boulder

Teaching Assistant, ASTR 301: Writing in Astronomy

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Publications

See my full publication list, updated automatically from ORCID.