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Kelly Lockhart

Center for Astrophysics
NASA ADS Software Engineer

About

Kelly completed her PhD in 2017 at the University of Hawaii - Manoa, focusing on the interaction between galactic centers and their host galaxies using high spatial resolution observations. As part of her dissertation, she worked with the Keck/OSIRIS Working Group to improve the data reduction pipeline for the OSIRIS integral field spectrograph on Keck I. After completing her degree, she joined ADS as a software developer in 2017, where her work includes maintaining and developing the data pipelines and microservices, supporting users, and translating between developers and astronomers for the ADS blog and other outreach.