Nina Hernitschek
CITEVA, Universidad de Antofagasta
Research Focus
About Nina
Nina Hernitschek is an assistant professor in astronomy at Universidad de Antofagasta, CITEVA where in addition to research, she contributes to the astroinformatics graduate program.
She got her PhD from the International Max-Planck Research School (Heidelberg University) with her thesis on “Astrophysical Modeling of Time Domain Surveys” (thesis advisor: Hans-Walter Rix).
After her first postdoc position at Caltech, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University’s Data Science Institute and the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics.
With expertise in machine learning, software development/engineering, computational optimization, signal detection, she is enthusiastic about developing efficient algorithms for large time-domain surveys to understand the history of our galaxy.
When not doing science, she enjoys hiking, crafts, reading Sci-Fi, tending a small garden and cooking.
As a first-generation student, she values mentoring a lot and contributes actively.
Honors
2022 - Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Mentor of the Year Award 2022, Honorable Mention Award
2021 - 2021 Cottrell Fellowship Award from Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA)
2019 - DSI/VIDA Postdoctoral Fellow at Data Science Institute (DSI) and the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-intensive Astrophysics (VIDA)
Education
Postdoc
Vanderbilt University, 09/2019
Caltech, 02/2017 - 09/2019
Ph.D.
Astronomy, Heidelberg University, 01/2017
Master's
Physics, Heidelberg University, 08/2013
Bachelor's
Heidelberg University, 06/2010
