Welcome! I’m Danny Krolikowski, a postdoc at Steward Observatory and a member of the NEID and HPF instrument teams, two cutting edge extreme precision radial velocity (EPRV) spectrometers.

Most of my time is spent working with the NEID software team to expand the functionality of its data reduction pipeline and support NEID’s users! I also have been involved in EPRV community-wide efforts on data and software standardization, including as the PI of a NASA-funded effort to develop the infrastructure of a community data reduction framework for EPRV spectroscopy.

I received my Ph.D. from UT Austin in August of 2022, where I worked with Professor Adam Kraus on a variety of projects regarding young stars and their planetary systems.

In particular, I’m interested in understanding how stars and planets form and evolve in their early lifetimes. I have worked on projects regarding young stellar populations, stellar activity, exoplanet detection and characterization, and the handling of spectroscopic data.

Please take a look through the rest of this website to learn more! See this page for more about my research, this page for more about the software I have written, and this page to read about some of the teaching and outreach I have done since my undergrad days. I also am indeed a person outside of astronomy, and you can take a look here for a bit more about me!