Dr. Steven Christe is a research astrophysicist in the Solar Physics Laboratory at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. His science interests focus on hard X-ray emission from solar flares and the quiet Sun with particular emphasis on the statistics of small transient bursts such as solar microflares; hard X-ray emission associated with solar radio emission; and the application of hard X-ray focusing optics to solar observations.

Affiliation: NASA GSFC

Github: @ehsteve

Start Date: 17 March 2014

David Pérez-Suárez is working now as a Research Software Developer at University College London. There he helps researchers to get better science via better software and teaches research software engineering to young scientists. He has studied the behavior of Coronal Bright Points with multi-instrument observations while at Armagh Observatory and participated in few EU virtual observatory projects to understand the heliosphere and the space weather effects on Earth while his jobs at Trinity College Dublin, the Finnish Meteorologica Institute, the South African National Space Agency and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

Affiliation: University College London

Github: @dpshelio

Start Date: 17 March 2014

Stanford University in the W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, where she studies the Sun and space weather as a member of the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory science team. She previously worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where she studied solar flares as a member of two NASA Heliophysics missions called TRACE and Hinode. Monica Bobra received a B.A. in Astronomy from Boston University and a M.S. in Physics from the University of New Hampshire.

Affiliation: Stanford University

Github: @mbobra

Start Date: 14 March 2017

Russell J. Hewett is a research scientist in computational science and engineering. He has worked in solar physics since 2000 and in addition to his PhD thesis on 3D tomography of the corona, he has spent time at NASA GSFC and Trinity College Dublin working on data processing, visualization, and science software for the RHESSI, SOHO, and STEREO satellite observatories. Russell earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on Computational Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois and he was a postdoc in Applied Mathematics at MIT. He has extensive experience in scientific software for Python.

Affiliation: Unaffiliated

Github: @rhewett

Start Date: 17 March 2014

Jack Ireland is a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, working on coronal heating, solar flares and space weather. He has worked as a member of the SOHO, TRACE, Hinode and SDO mission teams. He also runs the Helioviewer Project, which designs systems and services that give users everywhere the capability to explore the Sun and inner heliosphere and to give transparent access to the underlying data. Jack received a B.Sc in Mathematics and Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Affiliation: ADNET Systems, Inc. / NASA GSFC

Github: @wafels

Start Date: 17 March 2014

Kevin Reardon is a staff scientist at the National Solar Observatory in Boulder.

Affiliation: NSO

Github: @kreardon

Start Date: 23 Sep 2015

Sabrina Savage is a solar astrophysicist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. She received her Ph.D. in physics from Montana State University, where she began a career in satellite operations, and followed up with a NASA Postdoctoral fellowship at Goddard Space Flight Center studying flare energetics with the hard X-ray RHESSI satellite. She now serves as the US Project Scientist for the Japanese-led Hinode mission and works to develop solar instrumentation for sounding rockets and the International Space Station. Her research interests include observations of reconnection in the solar corona during long duration flaring events coupled with in situ complementary measurements of magnetic storms in the Earth's magnetosphere.

Affiliation: NASA MSFC

Github: @sabrinasavage

Start Date: 17 March 2017

Dr. Shih is a scientist at NASA GSFC who primarily studies ion acceleration in solar flares, mainly through gamma-ray spectroscopy and imaging using RHESSI, as well as analyzing Fermi observations. He is also actively involved in operating current instrumentation and developing next-generation instrumentation. He is the Deputy Mission Scientist of RHESSI, a NASA Small Explorer spacecraft launched in 2002, and he was the Solar Porject Scientist of HEROES, a NASA hard X-ray balloon instrument that flew in 2013.

Affiliation: NASA GSFC

Github: @ayshih

Start Date: 14 March 2017

Juan Carlos is a research scientist at the Space Sciences Laboraty in Berkeley Calofornina. He works in flare seismology and studies eclipses.

Affiliation: SSL/UCB

Github: @jcmartin76

Start Date: 7 April 2014

Stuart is the Python developer for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope Data Centre. He obtained a PhD in Numerical solar physics from Sheffield University in 2016, prior to his PhD he obtained a first class MPhys degree in Physics with Planetary and Space Physics from The University of Wales Aberystwyth, during which he spent 5 months studying at UNIS on Svalbard in the high arctic.

Affiliation: Sheffield University

Github: @cadair

Start Date: 17 March 2014