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Current Rôles

Education Director, Las Cumbres Observatory
Honorary Lecturer, School of Physics & Astronomy, Cardiff University

Education

PhD - Astrophysics Instability in the winds of hot stars: Theory and Simulation 1999-2004, Cardiff University
Master of Astrophysics 1st Class hons 1995-1999, Cardiff University

Awards and Nominations

Lise Meitner Medal from Institute of Physics, in 2020. This Silver Subject medal is awarded for distinguished contributions to public engagement in physics. The complete citation can be found on the IOP website
HundrED 2021 Global Collection - Inclusion of Global Sky Partners in the 100 most inspiring innovations in education.
Scientix Award for Best Resources in Science, Technology, Mathematics and Engineering - Star in a Box in 2015. This was a joint effort by many people, particularly myself, Stuart Lowe, Megan Davies, Chris North, Jon Yardley and Haley Gomez. It was also awarded to astroEDU for improving the activity through peer-review.
HundrED 2019 Global Collection - Inclusion of astroEDU in the 100 most inspiring innovations in education.

Selected Community Rôles

Vice-president of IAU Division C for Education, Outreach and Heritage
Founder of Ada's Adventures in Science comic book series
Director of Global Sky Partners, providing educational opportunities to use robotic telescopes, through Las Cumbres Observatory
Associate editor for Frontiers for Young Minds
Chair of the International Astronomical Union Office for Astronomy Development Task Force for children and schools.
Co-founder of astroEDU, an open access, peer-review platform for reviewing and sharing astronomy education activities, endorsed by International Astronomical Union.
Education and Science Editor for Space Scoop (a Universe Awareness project), astronomy press-releases rewritten for children 2014-2019
Chair of National Astronomy Meeting (UK) education and outreach session organising committee 2014-15.
Local Organising Committee for .Astronomy 8 conference in Oxford, 2016.
Local Organising Committee for National Astronomy Meeting conference in Nottingham, 2016.
Camp Cosmos director, 2016-2017

Invited Talks

2021 Oct - IAU Shaw Meeting, "Create better interactive apps"
2017 Feb - Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University - Smithsonian Institute, "Las Cumbres Observatory"
2014 Apr - Italian National Astronomy Meeting, Milan, "astroEDU: open access and peer-review for astronomy education".
2014 Mar - Queen Mary College, London - "Las Cumbres Observatory: a robotic telescope network for education and science".
2013 Oct - Copernicus Centre, Warsaw - "Exoplanets: Exploring new worlds"
2013 Jan - Dunlap Institute, Toronto - "Las Cumbres Observatory: a robotic telescope network for education and science"
2012 May - Leiden Observatory Science Communication seminar - "Creating an open network of robotic telescopes"

Selected Publications

NEOExchange - an online portal for NEO and Solar System science, T.A.Lister, E.Gomez, J.Chatelain, S.Greenstreet, J.MacFarlane, A.Tedeschi, I.Kosicb, Icarus, Volume 364, August 2021, 114387
astrosource: automating optical astronomy measurement, calibration and analysis for variable stellar sources from provided photometry, Michael T Fitzgerald, Edward Gomez, Saeed Salimpour, Joe Singleton, and Ridlo W. Wibowo, 2021, Journal of Open Source Software, 6 (58), 2641
Robotic Telescopes in Education, Gomez EL, Fitzgerald MT, 2017, Astronomical Review
Using machine learning to study the kinematics of cold gas in galaxies Dawson, James M., Davis, Timothy A., Gomez, Edward L., Schock, Justus, 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 491 (2), 2506–2519

Selected Public Talks

2021 Sept - Qatar National Library - "Las Cumbres Observatory"
2020 Oct - Swansea Science Festival - "Only a Matter of time". An interview with comedian, David Baddiel and science of time travel talk.
2020 Feb - Cardiff Science Festival - "Science of Time Travel"
2020 Jan - Royal Astronomical Society, London - "Science of Time Travel"
2017 January - British Science Fiction Association - "Science of Doctor Who: Time Travel and the Master"
2016 December - IoP Science Storytelling - "Jack Photon: a story of light"
2016 December - St Louis Science Centre - "Science of Doctor Who: Time Travel and the Master"
2016 July - Astronomy on Tap, Santa Barbara - "Jack Photon: a story of light"
2016 June - Mensa Cymru - "Science of Doctor Who: Space Travel and Alien Worlds".
2016 June - Devizes Festival - "Science of Doctor Who: Space Travel and Alien Worlds".
2016 April - Swansea Cafe Scientifique - "Science of Doctor Who: Space Travel and Alien Worlds".
2016 February - Bristol Astronomical Society - "Las Cumbres Observatory: a global telescope network"
2016 February - IoP Science Storytelling - "Jack Photon: a story of light"
2015 December - Humanist Society of UK - "Science of Doctor Who: Space Travel and Alien Worlds".
2015 December - Salisbury Cafe Scientifique - "Science of Doctor Who: Space Travel and Alien Worlds".
2015 July - Institute of Physics and National Museum of Wales, Cardiff - "Science of Doctor Who: Time Travel and Alien Worlds".
2014 Sept - St Louis Science Centre - "Science of Doctor Who: Space Travel and Alien Worlds".
2014 Mar - TEDxCardiff, "Intelligent robots and the story of light".

Contributed Conference Talks

2020 Sept - The Future of Meetings - "Robotic telescopes don't have eyepieces"
2016 Jun - National Astronomy Meeting - "There is no such thing as a stupid question"
2016 April - TEMI conference - "Big Questions in Science"
2015 Jun - National Astronomy Meeting - "Universe in the Classroom"
2014 Jun - National Astronomy Meeting - "astroEDU: open access and peer-review for astronomy education"
2012 Aug - IAU GA - Special Session: Communicating Astronomy to the Public
2012 Aug - IAU GA - Office of Astronomy for Development
2011 April - .Astronomy 3 - "Creating an open network of robotic telescopes"
2009 Sept - .Astronomy 1 - "Social media: An astronomers field guide"
2009 Jan - International Year of Astronomy Cultural Heritage conference

Workshops and Conference Sessions Organized

2021 Oct - IAU Shaw Meeting, "astroEDU: improving educational activities through peer-review" session
2018 June - National Astronomy Meeting, "Art Space" session
2016 June - National Astronomy Meeting Schools' Day organizer
2016 June - National Astronomy Meeting outreach session chair
2016 June - .Astronomy 8 - Snakes & Ponies: A Beginners guide to Django
2016 April - Robotic Telescopes in Education, Leiden Observatory
2015 Aug - STFC Summer School — 2015 Aug - Python in Astronomy — 2015 Aug - Git 4 Astronomers
2015 June - National Astronomy Meeting education session chair
2015 June - National Astronomy Meeting - Hack Day
2015 Mar - Reykjavik teacher workshop
2014 June - National Astronomy Meeting education session chair
2013 April - AstroPython workshop, Cardiff University
2012 Aug - Galileo Teacher Training, Beijing
2009 Dec - .Astronomy - Astronomy Podcasting
2007 April - EU-Hands on Universe teacher international training conference

Significant Grants

2021 - presnet Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation to support Global Sky Partners
2020 - present Simons Foundation to support Global Sky Partners
2014 - 2018 Universe in the Classroom (Co-founder) - National Science Academy, Welsh Government
2014 - 2017 NEO follow-up (Co-I) - NASA, see NEO exchange website created by me for this project
2013 - 2016 Fascination Astronomy (Co-I) - Qatar Foundation

Selected Web Projects

Star in a Box

Lead developer and maintainer
Web app for learning about the life cycle of stars. 2015 winner of Scientix Round 1 competition, category 2, Resources Award.

Serol's Cosmic Explorers

Creator and lead developer
Web application for exploring astronomy through missions, challenges and using robotic telescopes.

Creator and lead developer Web app to which triggers observations of asteroids (with Las Cumbres Observatory)) with a single click. Everyone's image get automatically combined into timelapses of the asteroids moving through space.

Agent Exoplanet

Lead developer and maintainer
An online LCO citizen science project for investigating the properties of transiting extra-solar planets.

More of my projects can be found on my GitHub profile.

Coding Languages

See GitHub for my recent software projects

Python
HTML
CSS
Javascript
PHP
Fortran

Web Frameworks

Django
Flask
VueJS

Edward Gomez

Curriculum Vitae