Tayler Quist

Tayler Quist

Lead Presenter and Senior Navigator

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Lunar GN&C Modeling and Simulation Engineer at Blue Origin

  • Education

    • University of Colorado Boulder

      2012 - 2016
      Bachelor of Arts - BA Astronomy and Astrophysics
    • University of California, Santa Cruz

      2018 - 2020
      Master of Science - MS Computational and Applied Mathematics 3.61
  • Experience

    • Fiske Planetarium University of Colorado

      Aug 2014 - Aug 2018
      Lead Presenter and Senior Navigator

      Presented originally written astrophysical talks that were at least 30minutes to a variety of audiences (from pre-school to senior citizens and taught college level classes). I also was the navigator for late night laser shows and programmed new effects in the system

    • Laboratory For Atmospheric and Space Physics

      May 2015 - Oct 2018

      Implementing and studying viscous heating in 2D Rayleigh-Bénard convection in the open source code, The Dedalus Project Studied how to model specific 3D Rayleigh-Bénard in the 2D environment to save computational time.

      • Professional Research Assistant

        Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
      • Undergraduate Research Assistant

        May 2015 - Dec 2016
    • University of California, Santa Cruz

      Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
      Graduate Research Assistant

      Wrote a ray tracing radiative transfer code in C++ to study the heating profile of hydrogen throughout early type galaxies.

    • LinQuest

      Jun 2020 - May 2022
      Senior System Engineer

      Lead on researching, implementing, and analyzing space weather effects into AFSIM.Developed specific orbital satellite trajectories for a training simulator.Research and analysis project on CRPA antennas with GPS jamming (with an INS system).

    • BLUE ORIGIN

      May 2022 - now
      GNC Modeling and Simulation Engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Fluid Dynamics Simulations Using Ansys

      Cornell University
      Feb 2022