Biography
Chun Ly is the Team Lead for the Publications and Data Management at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and an Affiliate Assistant Astronomer at Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona (UofA). He leads a team of librarians and data visualization specialist to provide support services to PPPL researchers throughout the research lifecycle. Prior to being Team Lead, he was the Research Data Developer at PPPL and deployed software for research data repository, KPI tracking, research staff promotion process, and the dissemination of open-access publications at a Department of Energy laboratory.
In his previous role at the UofA, he was the Research Data Systems Integration Specialist where he built and maintained the UofA research data repository service (ReDATA) that enables open and reproducible science at the UofA.
He enjoys developing open-source software with Python.
Chun earned his Bachelor's degrees in Astronomy and Physics from the UofA, and received his Master's and Ph.D. from the University of California−Los Angeles. After completing his Ph.D., Chun held a Giacconi Postdoctoral Fellowship position at the Space Telescope Science Institute (Baltimore, MD) and a NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD). He was a Queue Observer for the MMT Observatory (Mt. Hopkins, AZ) between 2016 and 2019.
Interests
- Open source software
- Automation with software and infrastructure
- Galaxy formation and evolution
- Astronomical data processing
- Open and reproducible science
- Enabling digital literacy with student mentoring, Software Carpentry, and Research Bazaar Arizona
Education
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Ph.D. in Astronomy, 2010
University of California, Los Angeles
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M.S. in Astronomy, 2006
University of California, Los Angeles
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B.S. in Astronomy and Physics, 2004
University of Arizona
