Alec Vinson

Staff Scientist at Areté
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(386) 825-5501
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Los Angeles, California, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • Defense and Space Manufacturing
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Staff Scientist
      • Jul 2021 - Present

      Los Angeles, California, United States

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • University Lecturer
      • Oct 2020 - Jan 2021

      Los Angeles, California, United States Crafted lesson plans, homework sets, and exams, teaching the second physics course in the standard freshman series for physical science and engineering majors. Topics included Fluid Mechanics, Periodic Motion and Mechanical Waves, Electric Fields and Potentials, and DC Circuits.

    • Teaching Assistant
      • Oct 2014 - Sep 2020

      Greater Los Angeles Area - Crafted lesson plans and taught as a Teaching Assistant (TA) - Organized TA meetings and trained new TAs as a Lead Lab TA for lab courses - Adapted lab course for online distance learning during COVID-19 pandemic in collaboration with other TAs.

    • Graduate Researcher
      • Sep 2014 - Jun 2020

      Greater Los Angeles Area · Developed a novel physics-based model to simulate planetary spin evolution, resulting in 2 peer-reviewed scientific papers in top astrophysics journals as the primary author · Presented and propagated research results at 3 scientific conferences, including an international conference · Managed and mentored undergraduate student on separate research project, contributing my own modeling and development to code written in C as well as providing general guidance, leading to scientific… Show more · Developed a novel physics-based model to simulate planetary spin evolution, resulting in 2 peer-reviewed scientific papers in top astrophysics journals as the primary author · Presented and propagated research results at 3 scientific conferences, including an international conference · Managed and mentored undergraduate student on separate research project, contributing my own modeling and development to code written in C as well as providing general guidance, leading to scientific paper published in top astrophysics journal as co-author

Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astrophysics
    2014 - 2020
  • California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
    Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, with Mathematics Minor
    2009 - 2014

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