StarCitizen:Jacob Ward

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Jacob Ward

Jacob Ward is Gameplay Programmer III at Cloud Imperium Games as part of the Squadron 42 Feature Team.<ref name=":0">jakeward.net, archived, </ref><ref>Inside Star Citizen: Avatar Repertoire, Star Citizen, YouTube, 14 March 2024</ref>

Works at CIG

He joined as Junior Gameplay Programmer in May 2020 before becoming gameplay Programmer II then III.<ref>Jacob Ward, Linkedin</ref>

Other Works

He was an Astrophysics researcher focusing on investigating the origins of OB associations using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, and developing the first multi-tracer timeline of star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">Astrophysics, jakeward.net, archived</ref>

Early Life

He has a Phd in Astrophysics, for which he worked primarily on high-resolution integral field spectroscopy of massive YSOs in the Magellanic Clouds.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

External Links

• Astrophysics publications

Trivia

• He was part of the team that first detected the complex organic molecules dimethyl ether and methyl formate outside of our galaxy for the first time.<ref>The Detection of Hot Cores and Complex Organic Molecules in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ui.adsabs.harvard.edu, February 2018</ref>

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