People

This collection describes the members of the research group. This is normally public data.

Schema

The following lists key names mapped to its type and meaning for each entry.

_id:

string, unique identifier for the group member, required

active:

boolean, If the person is an active member, default True., optional

activities:

list, activities may be teaching or research things, optional

type:

dict, optional

day:

integer, the day the activity took place, optional

type:

string, the type of the acitivity, optional

Allowed values:
  • teaching

  • research

month:

[‘integer’, ‘string’], the month the activity took place, optional

name:

string, brief statement of the activity, optional

other:

string, longer statement of the activity, optional

year:

integer, the year the activity took place, optional

aka:

[‘string’, ‘list’], list of aliases (also-known-as), useful for identifying the group member in citations or elsewhere., required

appointments:

dict, begin and end date, grant loading status and notes about appointments, optional

avatar:

string, URL to avatar, required

bio:

string, short biographical text, required

bios:

[‘string’, ‘list’], longer biographical text if needed, optional

collab:

boolean, If the person is a collaborator, default False., optional

committees:

list, Committees that are served on, optional

type:

dict, optional

name:

string, name of committee, or person if it is a phd committee, optional

day:

integer, optional

month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], optional

notes:

[‘string’, ‘list’], extra things you want to record about the thing, optional

year:

integer, optional

unit:

string, name of department or school etc., optional

type:

string, type of committee, department, school, university, external, optional

Allowed values:
  • phdoral

  • phddefense

  • phdproposal

  • promotion

level:

string, department or school or university, or external, optional

Allowed values:
  • department

  • school

  • university

  • external

group:

string, this employment is/was ina group in groups coll, optional

education:

list, This contains the educational information for the group member., required

type:

dict, optional

advisor:

string, name or id of advisor for this degree, optional

begin_day:

integer, optional

begin_month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], optional

begin_year:

integer, optional

degree:

string, optional

department:

string, department withinthe institution, optional

group:

string, this employment is/was ina group in groups coll, optional

end_day:

integer, optional

end_month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], optional

end_year:

integer, optional

gpa:

(‘float’, ‘string’), optional

institution:

string, optional

location:

string, optional

other:

list, optional

email:

string, email address of the group member, optional

employment:

list, Employment information, similar to educational information., optional

type:

dict, optional

advisor:

string, name or id of advisor/mentor/manager, optional

begin_day:

integer, optional

begin_month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], optional

begin_year:

integer, optional

begin_date:

[‘string’, ‘date’, ‘datetime’], begin date of employment in format YYYY-MM-DD, optional

coworkers:

list, list of coworkers. Ifposition is editor, these are assumed to be coeditors inconflict of interest builder, optional

department:

string, optional

end_day:

integer, optional

end_year:

integer, optional

end_date:

[‘string’, ‘date’, ‘datetime’], end date of employment in format YYYY-MM-DD, optional

group:

string, this employment is/was ina group in groups coll, optional

location:

string, optional

not_in_cv:

boolean, set to true if you want to suppress this entry in all cv’s and resumes, optional

organization:

string, optional

other:

list, optional

permanent:

boolean, true if the position is open ended and has no fixed end-date, optional

position:

string, optional

Allowed values:
  • ''

  • editor

  • unknown

  • undergraduate research assistant

  • undergraduate researcher

  • intern

  • visiting student

  • research assistant

  • masters research assistant

  • masters researcher

  • graduate research assistant

  • teaching assistant

  • post-doctoral scholar

  • research fellow

  • assistant scientist

  • assistant lecturer

  • research scientist

  • lecturer

  • adjunct scientist

  • senior assistant lecturer

  • research associate

  • reader

  • ajunct professor

  • adjunct professor

  • consultant

  • programer

  • programmer

  • visiting scientist

  • research assistant professor

  • associate scientist

  • assistant professor

  • assistant physicist

  • associate professor

  • associate physicist

  • professor emeritus

  • visiting professor

  • manager

  • director

  • scientist

  • engineer

  • physicist

  • president

  • professor

  • distinguished professor

position_full:

string, The full on title of the position. This will be typeset if it is here, or if not Position will be used. Position will be used for sorting and must come from a fixed list of positions, optional

status:

string, optional

Allowed values:
  • pi

  • adjunct

  • high-school

  • undergrad

  • ms

  • phd

  • postdoc

  • visitor-supported

  • visitor-unsupported

  • research-associate

facilities:

list, facilities may be teaching or research things, optional

type:

dict, optional

begin_day:

integer, the day facility, or the wish for the facility, started, optional

end_day:

integer, the day facility started, optional

type:

string, the type of the facility. Columbia asksfor wished-for facilities, so there are teaching-wish and research-wish fields., optional

Allowed values:
  • teaching

  • research

  • shared

  • other

  • teaching_wish

  • research_wish

begin_month:

[‘integer’, ‘string’], the month the facility (or wish) started, optional

end_month:

[‘integer’, ‘string’], the month the faclity went away, optional

name:

string, description of the facility, optional

notes:

[‘string’, ‘list’], anything else you want to jot down, optional

begin_year:

integer, the year the facility (or wish) started, optional

end_year:

integer, the year the facility (or wish) went away, optional

funding:

list, Funding and scholarship that the group member has individually obtained in the past. WARNING: this is not to be confused with the grants collection, optional

type:

dict, optional

currency:

string, optional

duration:

string, optional

month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], optional

name:

string, optional

value:

(‘float’, ‘integer’), optional

year:

integer, optional

github_id:

string, Your GitHub ID, optional

google_scholar_url:

string, URL of your Google Scholar rofile, optional

grp_mtg_active:

boolean, Whether to schedule tasks at group meeting or not, optional

hindex:

list, details of hindex pulled on a certain date, optional

type:

dict, optional

h:

integer, the value of the h index, optional

h_last_five:

integer, h index over past 5 years, optional

citations:

integer, total number of citations, optional

citations_last_five:

integer, number of citationsin the past 5 years, optional

origin:

string, where the numbers came from, optional

since:

integer, year of first citation, optional

year:

integer, year when the data were pulled, optional

month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], month when the data were pulled, optional

day:

integer, day when the data were pulled, optional

home_address:

dict, The person’s home address, optional

street:

string, street address, optional

city:

string, name of home city, optional

state:

string, name o home state, optional

zip:

string, zip code, optional

honors:

list, Honors that have been awarded to this group member, optional

type:

dict, optional

description:

string, optional

month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], optional

name:

string, optional

year:

integer, optional

initials:

string, The canonical initials for this group member, optional

linkedin_url:

string, The URL of this person’s LinkedIn account, optional

membership:

list, Professional organizations this member is a part of, optional

type:

dict, optional

begin_month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], optional

begin_year:

integer, optional

description:

string, optional

end_month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], optional

end_year:

integer, optional

organization:

string, optional

position:

string, optional

website:

string, optional

miscellaneous:

dict, Place to put weird things needed for special reporta, optional

metrics_for_success:

list, How do I want to be judged, optional

name:

string, Full, canonical name for the person, required

office:

string, The person’s office, optional

orcid_id:

string, The ORCID ID of the person, optional

position:

string, such as professor, graduate student, or scientist, optional

Allowed values:
  • ''

  • editor

  • unknown

  • undergraduate research assistant

  • undergraduate researcher

  • intern

  • visiting student

  • research assistant

  • masters research assistant

  • masters researcher

  • graduate research assistant

  • teaching assistant

  • post-doctoral scholar

  • research fellow

  • assistant scientist

  • assistant lecturer

  • research scientist

  • lecturer

  • adjunct scientist

  • senior assistant lecturer

  • research associate

  • reader

  • ajunct professor

  • adjunct professor

  • consultant

  • programer

  • programmer

  • visiting scientist

  • research assistant professor

  • associate scientist

  • assistant professor

  • assistant physicist

  • associate professor

  • associate physicist

  • professor emeritus

  • visiting professor

  • manager

  • director

  • scientist

  • engineer

  • physicist

  • president

  • professor

  • distinguished professor

position_full:

string, The full on title of the position. This will be typeset if it is here, or if not Position will be used. Position will be used for sorting and must come from a fixed list of positions, optional

publicity:

list, summary of publicity that person has received, optional

type:

dict, optional

type:

string, optional

Allowed values:
  • online

  • article

topic:

string, The short sentence of what the publicity was about, optional

title:

string, The title of the piece, optional

day:

integer, The day the piece appeared, optional

month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], The month the piece appeared, optional

publication:

string, The place where the publicity was placed, optional

text:

string, The text of the publicity, optional

url:

string, The URL where the piece may be found, optional

year:

integer, The year the piece appeared, optional

grant:

string, The identifier of the grant associated with the piece, optional

research_focus_areas:

list, summary of research projects that are ongoing. Usedin Annual appraisal for example, optional

type:

dict, optional

begin_year:

integer, optional

end_year:

integer, optional

description:

string, optional

research_summary:

string, Brief summary of overarching research goals, optional

service:

list, Service that this group member has provided, optional

type:

dict, optional

date:

[‘string’, ‘date’], the date of the service, optional

begin_date:

[‘string’, ‘date’], the begin date, optional

end_date:

[‘string’, ‘date’], the end date, optional

description:

string, optional

duration:

string, optional

month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], Use month and year if the servicedoesn’t extend more than one year.Otherwise use begin_year and end_year, optional

name:

string, optional

role:

string, the role played in the activity, e.g., co-chair, optional

notes:

[‘string’, ‘list’], optional

year:

integer, optional

begin_year:

integer, optional

begin_day:

integer, optional

begin_month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], Use month and year if the servicedoesn’t extend more than one year.Otherwise use begin_year/month and end_year/month, optional

end_year:

integer, optional

end_month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], Use month and year if the servicedoesn’t extend more than one year.Otherwise use begin_year and end_year, optional

end_day:

integer, optional

other:

[‘string’, ‘list’], optional

type:

string, profession, department, school, university, optional

Allowed values:
  • profession

  • university

  • school

  • department

skills:

list, Skill the group member has, optional

type:

dict, optional

category:

string, optional

level:

string, optional

name:

string, optional

teaching:

list, Courses that this group member has taught, if any, optional

type:

dict, optional

course:

string, optional

courseid:

string, optional

description:

string, optional

end_month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], optional

end_year:

integer, optional

enrollment:

[‘integer’, ‘string’], optional

evaluation:

dict, optional

response_rate:

number, optional

amount_learned:

number, optional

appropriateness_workload:

number, optional

course_overall:

number, optional

fairness_grading:

number, optional

organization:

number, optional

classroom_delivery:

number, optional

approachability:

number, optional

instructor_overall:

number, optional

comments:

list, student comments, optional

materials:

string, optional

month:

[‘string’, ‘integer’], optional

organization:

string, optional

position:

string, optional

semester:

string, optional

syllabus:

string, optional

video:

string, optional

website:

string, optional

year:

integer, optional

title:

string, for example, Dr., etc., optional

YAML Example

abeing:
  active: false
  aka:
    - being
    - human
    - person
  avatar: https://xkcd.com/1221/
  bio: Abstract Being is an exemplar human existence
  education:
    - begin_year: 2010
      degree: bachelors
      institution: University of Laughs
  employment:
    - begin_date: '2015-06-01'
      end_date: '2015-08-31'
      group: bg
      organization: columbiau
      position: intern
    - begin_date: '2020-01-01'
      end_date: '2030-12-31'
      group: agroup
      organization: usouthcarolina
      position: intern
    - begin_date: '2010-06-01'
      end_date: '2012-08-31'
      group: ergs
      organization: columbiau
      position: intern
    - begin_date: '2017-06-01'
      end_date: '2019-08-31'
      group: bg
      organization: columbiau
      position: intern
  name: Abstract Being
  position: intern
sbillinge:
  active: true
  activities:
    - name: course development
      other: Developed a new course for Materials Science
      type: teaching
      year: 2018
  aka:
    - Billinge
  avatar: https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/320553?v=3&s=200
  bio: Simon teaches and does research
  committees:
    - level: department
      name: Same Old
      notes: something
      type: phddefense
      unit: Materials Science
      year: 2018
  education:
    - advisor: scopatz
      begin_year: 2008
      degree: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program
      department: apam
      end_year: 2011
      group: ergs
      institution: The University of Texas at Austin
      location: Austin, TX
      other:
        - 'Adviser: Erich A. Schneider'
        - 'Dissertation: Essential Physics for Fuel Cycle Modeling & Analysis'
  email: sb2896@columbia.edu
  employment:
    - advisor: scopatz
      begin_year: 2015
      group: ergs
      location: Columbia, SC
      organization: The University of South Carolina
      other:
        - 'Cyclus: An agent-based, discrete time nuclear fuel cycle simulator.'
        - 'PyNE: The Nuclear Engineering Toolkit.'
        - 'Website: http://www.ergs.sc.edu/'
      position: assistant professor
      status: phd
  facilities:
    - begin_year: 2015
      name: Shared {Habanero} compute cluster
      type: other
    - begin_year: 2015
      name: Shared access to wet lab
      type: research_wish
    - begin_year: 2017
      name: Courseworks2
      type: teaching
    - begin_year: 2019
      name: nothing right now
      type: teaching_wish
    - begin_year: 2008
      name: I don't have one
      type: research
  funding:
    - name: Omega Laser User's Group Travel Award
      value: 1100
      year: 2013
    - name: NIF User's Group Travel Award
      value: 1150
      year: 2013
  google_scholar_url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dRm8f
  grp_mtg_active: true
  hindex:
    - citations: 17890
      citations_last_five: 8817
      day: 12
      h: 65
      h_last_five: 43
      month: May
      origin: Google Scholar
      since: 1991
      year: 2019
  home_address:
    city: The big apple
    state: plasma
    street: 123 Wallabe Ln
    zip: '007'
  initials: SJLB
  linkedin_url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=PAJ
  membership:
    - begin_year: 2006
      organization: American Nuclear Society
      position: Member
  miscellaneous:
    metrics_for_success:
      - publications(quality, quantity)
      - invite talks
      - funding
      - citations
  name: Simon J. L. Billinge
  office: 1105 Seely W. Mudd Building (inner office)
  orcid_id: 0000-0002-9432-4248
  position: professor
  publicity:
    - day: 24
      grant: bnlldrd18
      month: Jul
      publication: Brookhaven National Laboratory Web Story
      title: An awesome project and well worth the money
      topic: LDRD Provenance project
      type: online
      url: http://www.google.com
      year: 2019
  research_focus_areas:
    - begin_year: 2010
      description: software applied to materials engineering and life
  service:
    - month: August
      name: 'Master of Ceremonies and Organizer Brown University "Chemistry: Believe
        it or Not" public chemistry demonstration'
      type: profession
      year: 2017
    - begin_date: '2018-01-01'
      end_date: '2018-01-01'
      name: Applied Physics program committee
      type: department
    - date: '2017-06-01'
      name: Ad hoc tenure committee
      notes: Albert Einstein
      type: school
    - month: 12
      name: Co-organizer JUAMI
      other:
        - great way to meet people
      role: co-organizer
      type: profession
      year: 2017
  skills:
    - category: Programming Languages
      level: expert
      name: Python
  teaching:
    - course: 'MSAE-3010: Introduction to Materials Science'
      courseid: f17-3010
      description: This course is an introduction to nuclear physics.
      enrollment: 18
      evaluation:
        amount_learned: 4.57
        approachability: 4.86
        appropriateness_workload: 4.29
        classroom_delivery: 4.29
        comments:
          - Great teacher but disorganized
          - Wears pink pants.  Why?
        course_overall: 4.43
        fairness_grading: 4.57
        instructor_overall: 4.43
        organization: 4.0
        response_rate: 58.33
      month: August
      organization: Columbia University
      position: professor
      semester: Fall
      syllabus: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxUpd34yizZreDBCMEJNY2FUbnc
      year: 2016
    - course: 'MSAE-3010: Introduction to Materials Science'
      courseid: f17-3010
      description: This course is an introduction to nuclear physics.
      enrollment: 18
      evaluation:
        amount_learned: 4.57
        approachability: 4.86
        appropriateness_workload: 4.29
        classroom_delivery: 4.29
        comments:
          - Great teacher but disorganized
          - Wears pink pants.  Why?
        course_overall: 4.43
        fairness_grading: 4.57
        instructor_overall: 4.43
        organization: 4.0
        response_rate: 58.33
      month: August
      organization: Columbia University
      position: professor
      semester: Fall
      syllabus: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxUpd34yizZreDBCMEJNY2FUbnc
      year: 2017
    - course: 'MSAE-3010: Introduction to Materials Science'
      courseid: s17-3010
      description: This course is an introduction to nuclear physics.
      enrollment: 18
      evaluation:
        amount_learned: 4.57
        approachability: 4.86
        appropriateness_workload: 4.29
        classroom_delivery: 4.29
        comments:
          - Great teacher but disorganized
          - Wears pink pants.  Why?
        course_overall: 4.43
        fairness_grading: 4.57
        instructor_overall: 4.43
        organization: 4.0
        response_rate: 58.33
      month: Jan
      organization: Columbia University
      position: professor
      semester: Spring
      syllabus: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxUpd34yizZreDBCMEJNY2FUbnc
      year: 2018
    - course: 'MSAE-3010: Introduction to Materials Science'
      courseid: s17-3010
      description: This course is an introduction to nuclear physics.
      enrollment: 18
      evaluation:
        amount_learned: 4.57
        approachability: 4.86
        appropriateness_workload: 4.29
        classroom_delivery: 4.29
        comments:
          - Great teacher but disorganized
          - Wears pink pants.  Why?
        course_overall: 4.43
        fairness_grading: 4.57
        instructor_overall: 4.43
        organization: 4.0
        response_rate: 58.33
      month: Jan
      organization: Columbia University
      position: professor
      semester: Spring
      syllabus: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxUpd34yizZreDBCMEJNY2FUbnc
      year: 2017
    - course: 'MSAE-3010: Introduction to Materials Science'
      courseid: s17-3010
      description: This course is an introduction to nuclear physics.
      enrollment: 18
      month: Jan
      organization: Columbia University
      position: professor
      semester: Spring
      syllabus: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxUpd34yizZreDBCMEJNY2FUbnc
      year: 2019
    - course: 'MSAE-3010: Introduction to Materials Science'
      courseid: f18-3010
      description: This course is an introduction to nuclear physics.
      enrollment: 18
      evaluation:
        amount_learned: 4.57
        approachability: 4.86
        appropriateness_workload: 4.29
        classroom_delivery: 4.29
        comments:
          - Great teacher but disorganized
          - Wears pink pants.  Why?
        course_overall: 4.43
        fairness_grading: 4.57
        instructor_overall: 4.43
        organization: 4.0
        response_rate: 58.33
      month: August
      organization: Columbia University
      position: professor
      semester: Fall
      syllabus: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxUpd34yizZreDBCMEJNY2FUbnc
      year: 2018
    - course: 'MSAE-3010: Introduction to Materials Science'
      courseid: f19-3010
      description: This course is an introduction to nuclear physics.
      month: August
      organization: Columbia University
      position: professor
      semester: Fall
      syllabus: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxUpd34yizZreDBCMEJNY2FUbnc
      year: 2019
  title: Dr.
scopatz:
  aka:
    - Scopatz
    - Scopatz, A
    - Scopatz, A.
    - Scopatz, A M
    - Anthony Michael Scopatz
  appointments:
    f19:
      begin_day: 1
      begin_month: 9
      begin_year: 2019
      end_day: 31
      end_month: 10
      end_year: 2019
      grant: dmref15
      loading: 0.75
      notes:
        - forgetmenot
      status: finalized
      type: pd
    s20:
      begin_date: '2020-01-01'
      end_date: '2020-05-15'
      grant: sym
      loading: 1.0
      notes:
        - fully appointed
        - outdated grant
      status: finalized
      type: pd
    ss20:
      begin_date: '2020-06-01'
      end_date: '2020-08-31'
      grant: abc42
      loading: 0.8
      notes: []
      status: proposed
      type: ss
    ss21:
      begin_date: '2020-09-01'
      end_date: '2021-08-31'
      grant: future_grant
      loading: 1.0
      notes: []
      status: proposed
      type: ss
  avatar: https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/320553?v=3&s=200
  bio: Anthony Scopatz is currently an Assistant Professor
  bios:
    - Anthony Scopatz is currently an Assistant Professor but will go on to do great
      things
  committees:
    - day: 1
      level: department
      month: 3
      name: Heather Stanford
      type: phdoral
      unit: apam
      year: 2020
    - day: 1
      level: school
      month: 3
      name: Heather Stanford
      type: promotion
      unit: seas
      year: 2020
    - day: 1
      level: external
      month: 3
      name: Heather Stanford
      notes: something else to remember about it, not published
      type: phddefense
      unit: U Denmark
      year: 2020
    - day: 1
      level: university
      month: 3
      name: Heather Stanford
      type: promotion
      unit: columbiau
      year: 2020
  education:
    - advisor: scopatz
      begin_year: 2008
      degree: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program
      department: apam
      end_year: 2011
      group: ergs
      institution: The University of Texas at Austin
      location: Austin, TX
      other:
        - 'Adviser: Erich A. Schneider'
        - 'Dissertation: Essential Physics for Fuel Cycle Modeling & Analysis'
    - begin_year: 2006
      degree: M.S.E. Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program
      end_year: 2007
      institution: The University of Texas at Austin
      location: Austin, TX
      other:
        - 'Adviser: Erich A. Schneider'
        - 'Thesis: Recyclable Uranium Options under the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership'
    - begin_day: 1
      begin_month: Sep
      begin_year: 2002
      degree: B.S. Physics
      end_day: 20
      end_month: 5
      end_year: 2006
      institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
      location: Santa Barbara, CA
      other:
        - Graduated with a Major in Physics and a Minor in Mathematics
    - begin_year: 2008
      degree: ongoing
      department: earth
      group: life
      institution: solar system
      location: land, mostly
  email: scopatz@cec.sc.edu
  employment:
    - advisor: scopatz
      begin_year: 2015
      coworkers:
        - afriend
      group: ergs
      location: Columbia, SC
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