Keith Tirimba

 

Department of Astronomy

401 Bryant Space Science Center                                  Email: ktirimba@ufl.edu

University of Florida                                                        Phone: +16612793378

Gainesville, FL 32611                                                      Nationality: American, Kenyan

 

EDUCATION                                                                                                                                  

University of Florida - Ph.D. in Astronomy, 2019 - Present

           Advisor: Elizabeth Lada

Leiden University - M.S. in Astronomy and Data Science, 2019 

            Advisors: Ignas Snellen & Huib Jan Van Langevelde

University of California, Santa Cruz -  B.S. in Physics (Astrophysics), 2016

           Senior Thesis: Finding Extremely Metal Poor Galaxies (XMPs) at z < 1

           Advisor: J. Xavier Prochaska

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE       

 

Second Master Project w/ Luis Henry Quiroga Nunez and                      Sept 2018 - Jul 2019

       Huib Jan van Langevelde on Maser stellar associations with           

       Gaia

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First Master Project w/ Ignas Snellen on Detecting Hot Jupiters            Sept 2017- Aug 2018

       around faint stars (m>8) with MASCARA

                                                                                           

Undergraduate research w/ Professor J. Xavier                                     Jan 2016 – Jan 2017

        Prochaska on Extremely Low Metallicity Galaxies (XMPs)

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Undergraduate research w/ Dr. Martin Gaskell on Broad                      Sep 2016 – Jan 2017

        Absorption Line Quasi Stellar Objects (BALQSOs)

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LAMAT summer program for undergraduate computational                  Summer 2016

        astrophysics research

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POSTER PRESENTATIONS          

                                                                                              

UCSC Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium                             Summer 2016

229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society                             Jan 2017

 

OBSERVING EXPERIENCE

                                                                                                       

Keck (DEIMOS, NIRSPEC)                                                       2 nights (as co-I)

3m Shane reflector                                                                   1 night (as PI), 3 nights (as co-I)

George H. Herbig Observational Astronomy Workshop      5 days

• 1m Nickel Telescope

• Tauchmann Telescope

• 3m Shane Reflector

• Coudé Auxiliary Telescope

 

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE     

Graduate Research Assistant                                                                       Sep 2017 - Present                                                                                     

Grader for Astro 2, “Overview of the Universe” Undergraduate              Summer 2016

course

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Junior Specialist at UCSC/UCO                                                                   Feb 2017-July 2017

 

PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE        

                                                                               

Proficient in Python, Java, SQL

 

AWARDS & HONORS                        

McKnight Doctoral Fellowship (5 years)                                                                                        

Lamat Fellowship

Dean’s Honors  (3 quarters)

 

PUBLICATIONS       

                                                                                                                     

K-Correction For Low Metallicity Star Forming Galaxies at z <1       in prep.