Dr Coleman Krawczyk
Summary
I'm an expert researcher in data analysis for Zooniverse citizen science projects, building general purpose data analysis tools, and helping to make astronomy more accessible to people with vision impairments.
Biography
I'm a Citizen Science and Outreach Fellow for the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation and act as the Technical Lead of the Tactile Universe project. I joined the ICG in 2014 after completing my PhD at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Research interests
My current research interst fall into several catagores:
- Zooniverse data analysis: As a developer for the Zooniverse I am building a general purpose data aggregation tool box to help research turn clicks into science
- Tactile Universe: I am the technical lead for the Tactile Universe project which creating 3D printable tactile models of galaxies to help teach students with vision impairments about astronomy.
- Global Earth Model: As part of the GEM team I am designing and building the coding infrastructure that will be used to create a digital twin of the earth
- Statistics: I am interested in learning about advanced statistical techniques and learning how to apply them large data set
Research outputs
2025
Goto065054+593624: a 8.5 mag amplitude dwarf nova identified in real time via Kilonova Seekers
Killestein, T. L., Ramsay, G., Kennedy, M., Kelsey, L., Steeghs, D., Littlefair, S., Godson, B., Lyman, J., Pursiainen, M., Warwick, B., Krawczyk, C., Nuttall, L. K., Wickens, E., Alexandrov, S. D., da Silva, C. M.,
1 Jul 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 699, 7, p. 1-14, 14p., A8
Research output: Article
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). The Strong Lensing Discovery Engine C - Finding lenses with machine learning
Collaboration, E., Lines, N. E. P., Collett, T. E., Walmsley, M., Rojas, K., Li, T., Leuzzi, L., Manjón-García, A., Vincken, S. H., Wilde, J., Holloway, P., Verma, A., Metcalf, R. B., Andika, I. T., Melo, A.,
17 Jun 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research output: Article
Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). The Strong Lensing Discovery Engine D - Double-source-plane lens candidates
Collaboration, E., Li, T., Collett, T. E., Walmsley, M., Lines, N. E. P., Rojas, K., Nightingale, J. W., Enzi, W. J. R., Moustakas, L. A., Krawczyk, C., Gavazzi, R., Despali, G., Holloway, P., Schuldt, S.,
13 Jun 2025, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Research output: Article
The overconcentrated dark halo in the strong lens SDSS J0946+1006 is a subhalo: evidence for self interacting dark matter?
Enzi, W. J. R., Krawczyk, C., Ballard, D., Collett, T.
1 Jun 2025, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540, 1, p. 247–263
Research output: Article
2024
Through the citizen scientists’ eyes: insights into using citizen science with machine learning for effective identification of unknown-unknowns in big data
Mantha, K. B., Krawczyk, C., Roberts, H., Simmons, B., Fortson, L., Walmsley, M., Lintott, C., Garland, I., Dickinson, H., Makechemu, J. S., Keel, W., Trouille, L., Sankar, R., Johnson, C.
9 Dec 2024, In: Citizen Science: Theory and Practice. 9, 1, p. 1-15, 15p., 40
Research output: Article
Communicating the gravitational-wave discoveries of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration
Middleton, H., Berry, C. P., Arnaud, N., Blair, D., Bondell, J., Bonino, A., Bonne, N., Chatterjee, D., Chaty, S., Colloms, S., Cominsky, L., Conti, L., Cordero-Carrión, I., Coyne, R., Doctor, Z., Freise, A.,
21 Oct 2024, In: Journal of Science Communication. 23, 7, 29p., N03
Research output: Article
Kilonova Seekers: the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics
Killestein, T. L., Kelsey, L., Wickens, E., Nuttall, L., Lyman, J., Krawczyk, C., Ackley, K., Dyer, M. J., Jiménez-Ibarra, F., Ulaczyk, K., O'Neill, D., Kumar, A., Steeghs, D., Galloway, D. K., Dhillon, V. S.,
1 Sep 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533, 2, p. 2113-2132
Research output: Article
How to break the mass sheet degeneracy with the light curves of microlensed Type Ia supernovae
Weisenbach, L., Collett, T., De Murieta, A. S., Krawczyk, C., Vernardos, G., Enzi, W., Lundgren, A.
1 Jul 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531, 4, p. 4349-4362, 14p.
Research output: Article
2023
Lensed Type Ia supernovae in light of SN Zwicky and iPTF16geu
Sainz De Murieta Martinez-Zubiri, A., Collett, T. E., Magee, M. R., Weisenbach, L., Krawczyk, C. M., Enzi, W.
1 Dec 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526, 3, p. 4296-4307, 12p.
Research output: Article
Cosmology from large populations of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses
Li, T., Collett, T. E., Krawczyk, C. M., Enzi, W.
15 Nov 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 13p.
Research output: Article