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My curriculum vitae. You can download a more complete version at the button above. For more information refer to my publications, presentations and project pages.

General Information

Full Name Nicholas H. Androski
Location Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLASP) 2455 Hayward St
Email nandrosk@umich.edu

Education

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • 2024 - Present. Anticipated 2029.
  • 2024
    Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
    • Minors in Astronomy and Mathematics.
    • GPA: 4.0/4.0

Experience

  • 2023
    Solar Research Experience for Undergraduates
    Center for Astrophysics Harvard and Smithsonian.
    • Advised by Dr. Kristoff Paulson.
    • Developed original code to extract, visualize, and analyze plasma and electromagnetic (EM) data from NASAs Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission in order to search for EM wave activity in the Suns corona that may contribute to the high temperatures at the crux of the coronal heating problem.
    • Produced a catalog of Sub-Alfvenic intervals in PSP data which indicates when the probe is within the corona and presented the list to the PSPs SWEAP instrument science team.
    • Cal Poly Senior Project.
      • Continued work with Dr. Paulson until June 2024 culminating in a senior project report.
      • The report provides a comprehensive overview of ion-cyclotron waves in the context of solar coronal heating.
  • 2023
    Undergraduate Research Student
    Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
    • Advised by Dr. Elizabeth Jeffery.
    • Standardized photometry of the metal rich open cluster NGC 6253 and used a Bayesian Analysis software (BASE-9) to constrain the cluster age by fitting the main sequence turn off age.
    • Presented work as a poster at the 2024 Winter AAS meeting.
  • 2022
    Frost Research Student
    Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
    • Simulated unresolved binary star systems to analyze the effectiveness of a novel technique for measuring the age of individual main sequence stars through Bayesian analysis.
    • Developed a data framework in Jupyter Notebook with widgets that organized and streamlined the analysis of 100s of non-Gaussian posterior distributions.
    • Presented a poster presentation at the 2023 Winter AAS meeting.
  • 2021
    Frost Research Student
    Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
    • Advised by Dr. Jennifer Klay.
    • Worked with large sample of millions of nuclear fission event data from the Neutron Induced Fission Fragment Tracking Experiment (NIFFTE) with CERN’s ROOT framework.
    • Developed an algorithm to characterize and sort rare ternary alpha nuclear fission events.

Publications and Technical Reports

  • Andorksi, N.H, Paulson, K. (2024). Identifying Ion-Scale Waves in Parker Solar Probe Sub-Alfvénic Intervals. Digital Commons at Cal Poly.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Philip and Christina Bailey College of Science and Math 2024 Academic Excellence Award
    • Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Department of Physics Academic Excellence Award
    • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo graduating honors Summa Cum Laude
    • Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Philip and Christina Bailey College of Science and Math Deans List All quarters of attendance

Academic Interests

  • Climate Modeling.
    • Global high resolution model development, particularly in the realm of atmospheric dynamics.
    • Ideal model test cases for purposes of comparison and deeper understanding.
  • Data Visualization and Interaction
    • Particularly applied as a tool for education.
    • Focus on open source development with plentiful documentation.

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Biking, cooking, volleyball, hiking, learning something new!