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Education

• Ph.D. in Astrophysics - UC Berkeley & North Carolina State University, December 2025
  • Dissertation: A study of Magnetic Fields and Stellar Evolution on Core-Collapse Supernovae
• B.S. in Physics with Honors & Applied Mathematics - North Carolina State University, May 2018

Work Experience

Supernova Physicist (2019 - 2025)
UC Berkeley & NC State University - Berkeley, CA & Raleigh, NC

• Utilized a high-fidelity MHD FORTRAN 3D supernova code on distributed HPC systems to explore the role of turbulent plasma flow in supernova evolution
• Developed and implemented Python scripts to perform data analysis and generate plots used in publications
• Developed expertise in MHD and plasma dynamics through literature review and modeling experience
• Adapted numerical solvers for nonlinear PDEs with constraint preserving methods to enforce magnetic field divergence-free boundary conditions

App Developer - Independent Contract (2025)
Kondra Chemical - San Francisco, CA

• Designed, built, tested, and delivered a LabView app for measurement of chemical concentration in water samples
• Developed hardware control, spectrometer data acquisition, and concentration interpolation modules

Software Engineer (2024 - Present)
KOINSLOT Inc. - San Francisco, CA

• Contributed to Kywy, a handheld “low-code” educational coding device
• Developed complete games, custom rotation algorithms for sprite rendering, and asset-generation scripts in C++

Business Systems Analyst (2018 - 2019)
Insightsoftware - Raleigh, NC

• Planned and executed data migrations for multiple acquired companies on short timescales
• Leveraged SQL and SOQL to perform data migrations into Salesforce from previous CRM systems

IT Systems Administrator (January 2015 - May 2018)
North Carolina State University - Raleigh, NC

• Co-managed IT operations for the Physics Department at NC State University as one of two team members
• Implemented test environments in Docker and gained fluency in Linux

Leadership

Mentoring

• Mentored an undergraduate researcher on an original project in the N3AS program at UC Berkeley. Investigated the effects of changing the beta decay rates of nuclei on the nucleosynthetic yields of a neutron star merger simulation.
• Trained several junior graduate students on FORTRAN, Python, and HPC environments.

Teaching

• Tutoring: Privately tutored high school and undergraduate students in physics and math for 8 years.
• Teaching: Taught undergraduate courses in electromagnetism and astronomy.

Community

• Graduate Physics Student Association (GPSA): President for 3 years
• Graduate Research Symposium Planning Committee: Founding member
• DEI Committee: Founding member, served for 3 years

Science Communication

Public Talks

• Astronomy on Tap — Oakland, CA
• Astronomy on Tap — Durham, NC
• Astronomy Days - Science Museum, Raleigh, NC

Outreach

• Raleigh Astronomy Club: Led public telescope observations and taught members of the public about astronomy.
• Local Middle School Astronomy Outreach: Attended local middle schools in Raleigh, NC to teach students about solar activity and sunspots, as well as show them a live demonstration of sunspots with a solar-filtered telescope.

Skills

Languages & Tools

• Python (NumPy, SciPy, mpi4py)
• FORTRAN, C++, MATLAB
• Docker, Git, MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC
• VS Code, CUDA, Bash, LabView
• Autodesk Fusion

Technical & Scientific

• Plasma Physics
• PDEs/ODEs & Vector Calculus
• Numerical Methods
• Multiphysics Simulation
• Large Data Analytics
• HPC Optimization
• Statistical Analysis
• Data Visualization

Soft Skills

• Scientific Communication
• Mentoring & Collaboration
• Project Organization
• Technical Document Review
• Language Learning (German, Spanish, Hindi)

Publications

• Calvert, D., et al. (2025). “Turbulence in Core-Collapse Supernovae”, Astrophysical Journal
• Calvert, D., et al. (2026). “The Interplay of Magnetic Fields and Vorticity in Core-Collapse Supernovae”, Astrophysical Journal (In prep)
• Calvert, D., et al. (2026). “Investigating The Relationship Between Stellar Structure And Core-collapse Supernovae Outcomes”, (In prep)