Brian Murphy Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Ph.D. Researcher/Candidate, Studying the DART Impact Ejecta with MUSE, supervised by Dr. Cyrielle Opitom and Prof. Colin Snodgrass.
• Reduced and calibrated MUSE spectrograph cubes, pixel tables, and white FOV images of the Didymos-Dimorphos system from the 8.2m Very Large Telescope UT4.
• Implemented novel ejecta jet and tail tracking scripts to quantify astrometric changes in ejecta morphology.
• Derived a comprehensive set of ejecta velocities up to T+250 hrs past impact.
• Utilized the 2.54m Isaac Newton Telescope to perform follow-up observations of the Didymos-Dimorphos system up to T+54 days past impact.
• Assisted in the validation of Hubble Space Telescope ejecta speeds and tail angles, co-author on an upcoming Nature paper regarding initial Hubble-based morphology results.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• The Out Astronaut Project is sponsored through the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences, a non-profit institute that provides professional education for students interested in STEM careers in space. I.
• Built program with Dr. Sally K. Ride Elementary School for grass-roots STEM LGBTQ outreach
• Completed normabaric, hypoxia, high-G, low-G, Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, and IVA suit training.
• Designed missions for tomographic imaging and mapping of polar noctilucent clouds.
• Assisted in management of partners, social media, and overall vision of the Out Astronaut Project.

Melbourne, Florida, United States

• Project Lead - Martian Ices Concentration and Analysis
• Established and ran research group as a term project that aimed to investigate the spatial and temporal variation of pure water ice in the Korolev Crater.
• Utilized NASA’s Planetary Data System to acquire raw infrared imagery from the Mars Odyssey Orbiter’s Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS).
• Derived a comprehensive set of average surface temperatures within Korolev Crater and produced temperature maps of the crater and surrounding region during solar longitudes of 45
• to 210
• .

Melbourne, Florida, United States

• Massive Binary Star Campaign
• Assisted in observations and selection of high proper motion targets from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite exoplanet candidate database.
• Assisted in observations and photometry of local eclipsing binary star candidates through remote observatories in La Palma (ORM), Cerro Tololo (CTIO), Kitt Peak (KPNO), and Ortega.
• Self-taught and wrote Python scripts that calculate an object’s airmass and visibility which can greatly assist in observation run planning.

Melbourne, Florida, United States

• Student Honors Council
• Established online STEM outreach program for elementary students including Science Videos, Science Lectures, and Science Advisors.
• Established new connections with other student organizations for middle and high school STEM outreach programs.
• Outlined committee structure and bylaws
• Assisted in environmental volunteer programs, including campus and beach clean ups

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

• Summer 2021 OSTEM Intern
• Used NEMESIS Radiative Transfer and Planetary Atmosphere Retrieval Tool (Irwin et al. 2009) to model Cassini CIRS observations of Titan’s atmosphere.
• Wrote various Python scripts for data interpolation, haze profile construction, data analysis, and plotting.
• Derived a comprehensive set of upper limits on H2O abundances in 6 data sets spanning 30
• around equatorial-centered latitude bins.
• Presented preliminary findings at three professional conferences and second author on upcoming paper that will help constrain future photochemical models of Titan’s atmosphere.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Astronomy, Second-Year

Activities and Societies: Postgraduates in Physics and Astronomy Edinburgh University Archery Club Edinburgh University Scuba Diving.

Planetary Science, Planetary Sciences - Terrestrial Planets & Ocean Worlds

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Laude, Researcher in Massive Stars Campaign, Researcher in Martian Ices Concentration and Analysis.

Geology/Earth Science, General, Sophomore

As a participant in the American Institute for Foreign Study study abroad program, I studied geology and humanities in New Zealand to.

High Honors High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Treasurer of National Art Honors Society, Treasurer of National Honors Society, Science Olympiad, Founder and.