About
I run the NASA TESS mission Science Support Center, and mentor several people. My expertise lies in both astrophysics research, and developing open source software. This year I have developed several pieces of open source software for research in the field of astronomy. As the lead for the support science center for the NASA TESS mission, and the pipeline scientist for the NASA Pandora mission, these tools mostly concern those spacecraft. These includeTools to show where the NASA TESS spacecraft will point (https://github.com/christinahedges/tesswcs) which will be used to both inform the astronomy community and guide EM3 planning for the TESS mission. Tools to access and work with NASA TESS data in the cloud (https://github.com/christinahedges/tessrip). This tool is designed to access data much more efficiently from the cloud than other state of the art tools.I am currently developing the NASA Pandora mission pipeline, which includes tools such as Pandora-sat, Pandora-PSF, and Pandora-Sim. These tools, in particular Pandora-PSF, include new innovations in calculating the simulated, expected scene from smallsats.Education
- Ph D, Astronomy — University of Cambridge (2018)
- MS, Physics — University of Birmingham (2014)