Curriculum Vitae

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Education

}2018 – 2024PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
}2014 – 2018B.S. in Mathematical Physics and Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University

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}2024 – 2027Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
}2021 –Coordinator & Core Developer, Astropy

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}2026Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1): The geometry of dark matter halos from extragalactic streams — N. Starkman, J. Nibauer, S. Pearson, S. Wu, et al. Astronomy & Astrophysicssubmitted
}2026Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Modeling Galactic Gravitational Potentials — C. Myers, N. Starkman, L. Necib. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societysubmitted
}2026Potamides: Mapping Dark Matter Halo Shapes from Stellar Stream Tracks in the Local Universe — S. Wu, N. Starkman, S. Pearson, J. Nibauer, et al. The Astrophysical Journalsubmitted
}2025Stream Members Only: Data-Driven Characterization of Stellar Streams with Mixture Density Networks — N. Starkman, J. Nibauer, J. Bovy, J. Webb, et al. The Astrophysical Journal 980, 253
}2023On the fast track: Rapid construction of stellar stream paths — N. Starkman, J. Bovy, J. Webb, D. Calvetti, et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 522, 5022

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}2025AAS Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize — to the Astropy Collaboration
}2024Brinson Prize Fellowship
}2020 – 2023NSERC - CGS D
}2018 – 2024University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship

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galax

Galactic dynamics in JAX

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coordinax

Coordinates in JAX

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unxt

Units in JAX

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Astropy

Astronomy in Python

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