Axel Donath

Welcome to my personal website!

I'm a Posdoctoral researcher at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA. Previously I have worked at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, where I also did my PhD.

I develop new AI, machine learning and statistical methods as well as scientific open source software for the analysis of astronomical low counts data. I apply those methods to better understand the Galactic X-Ray and Gamma-Ray source populations.

I'm also interested in developing new methods and open data formats to combine data from multiple instruments, such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), H.E.S.S., HAWC and Fermi-LAT but also X-ray observatories such as Chandra. By advocating openness I hope to facilitate collaboration between astronomical observatories for better, more open and reproducible science.

I'm the lead developer of the open source software package Gammapy, sub-package maintainer of Astropy and a member of the CHASC astro-statistics collaboration. I'm also editor for the Astronomy and Astrophysics track of the Journal of Open Source Software JOSS.

Here you can find my complete CV for download.