Kai Meister - Portfolio

ASTrAEA Exoplanet Pipeline (M.Sc.)

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Designed fully autonomous reduction pipeline for astrophysical spectra of exoplanetary atmospheres.

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Evaluated 1700+ spectra from 20 different exoplanets.

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Generalized various complex reduction steps with algorithmic approaches to achieve complete autonomy.

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Devised a module that interfaces into multiple existing APIs to gather and verify data on analyzed exoplanets.

Dusty Lyman-Break Galaxies (B.Sc.)

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Formulate Dust Models for simulated Lyman-Break galaxies from the Illustris Project.

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Evaluate models through light-transport code, capture simulated light and identify Lyman-Break features.

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Compare extracted simulation results with real-world counterparts to assess model accuracies.

N-Body Brownian Motion Sim

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Simulate up to 4096 Vicsek swarm particles, utilizing cell-list optimizations to achieve huge boosts in runtime.

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Extract meaningful data from the simulations and perform statistical analyses on effects like induced phase seperation and clustering.

Copolymer Escape Simulation

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Simulate diblock copolymers using the MCMC Metropolis algorithm in order to determine escape rates.

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Utilize Forward-Flux Sampling to boost the statistical efficiency of the simulations.

Physics Projects