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CRESST@UMBC
UMBC Scientists
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These pages are associated with UMBC's participation in the
CRESST consortium. The University of Maryland College Park (UMCP)
and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) are
our partners in the consortium.
List of all CRESST
Research Scientists (all three institutions).
UMBC Scientists within CRESST
Currently there are
28
UMBC scientists working on CRESST-related projects
(plus the UMBC Associate Director). A brief description of the work they
perform is given below.
For contact information, see the
CRESST@UMBC Contact Directory.
Dr. Joe Adams
Associate Research Scientist
Joe is an experimental physicist specializing in instrument
development. Following work at MIT Lincoln Labs on time-of-flight laser
radar systems, he came to GSFC in 2005 to work on low-temperature
detectors and related instrumentation. He is leading the detector
development for a forthcoming sounding-rocket experiment (in collaboration
with MIT & NIST) to fly a Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) for the first time.
Joe is also involved in GSFC’s EBIT experiment at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory studying plasmas under conditions similar to those
observed astrophysically.
Main Research Area(s): hardware development
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Dr. David Band
Senior Research Scientist
Working in the GLAST
Science Support Center
(GSSC)
at
NASA/GSFC,
and responsible for user support services for the
GLAST
mission.
Designs and supervises
the implementation of scientific tools that users will use to
develop their
Guest Investigation
(G.I.) proposals,
and to design
their observations. Also assists
NASA HQ
by managing the
GLAST
G.I. program:
drafting the text for the
NASA Research Announcement (NRA) and the
GSSC; running the peer
review process; and providing the documentation for the software. I
also support the
GLAST
Users' Committee and other Mission activities,
as needed.
Main Research Area(s): Gamma-ray Bursts.
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Dr. Wayne Baumgartner
Research Associate
working with the Swift BAT team on the hard X-ray
survey and hard X-ray detector development.
Main Research Area(s): Highly obscured AGN,
clusters of galaxies, detector
development
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Dr. John Cannizzo
Associate Research Scientist
Main Research Area(s):
Computer Simulations of relativistic fluids,
Gamma-Ray Bursts, LIGO Observations
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Dr. Ozlem Celik
Research Associate
Main Research Area(s):
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Dr. Kai-Wing Chan
Associate Research Scientist
Expert in X-ray optics, having played a major role developing the
thin-shell
XRTs
for the original Astro-E and for
Suzaku.
He is currently
working on various aspects of the mirrors for
Constellation-X mission.
Main Research Area(s):
Gamma-ray & positron transport in young SNe and Galactic nucleosynthesis.
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Dr. Meng Chiao
Associate Research Engineer
Main Research Area(s):
design and development of the cryogenics and associated
hardware required for the transition-edge sensor research underway for future
astrophysical missions.
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Dr. Jay Cummings
Senior Research Scientist
Research scientist, specializing in the
Burst Alert Telescope
(BAT) on board the
Swift
mission.
Main Research Area(s): Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Dr. David Davies
Associate Research Professor
Section lead for the Data Archives & Software
Support (DASS) section at the
GLAST
Science Support Center
(GSSC)
at
NASA/GSFC.
Also oversees
GLAST
science software that is being developed within the
GSSC and
directly working on several of the science tools, and is
responsible for parts of the project documentation, MOU, the
GSSC
science databases, the internal operations databases and the
GSSC
test plans.
Main Research Area(s): Groups and Clusters of Galaxies
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Dr. Georgia de Nolfo
Associate Research Scientist
Developing gas microwell detectors used to track gamma-rays and
neutrons in 3 dimensions. Currently working on the testing
and development of the 3-DTI prototype instrument, with the aim
of future balloon and spoace flights.
Main Research Area(s): Intensity and modulation of light isotopes
produced by spallation of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) using
ACE/CRIS; observations
of heavier GCRs using
TIGER.
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Dr. Keigo Fukumura
Research Associate
Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) from Spinning Black Holes,
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Disk-Wind Model,
Relativistic Illumination Law from Accretion Disks,
General Relativistic Shock Formation in Accretion Flows, and
Relativistic Iron Fluorescent Line from Accretion Disks
Main Research Area(s):
Theoretical High Energy X-ray Astrophysics, Active Galactic Nuclei, Compact Objects (Black Hole Physics), Fluid Dynamics
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Dr. Fotis Gavriil
Research Associate
Development of software and analysis techniques for
long-term spectroscopic observations of X-ray pulsars and
related objects.
Main Research Area(s):
Highly-magnetized Neutron Stars ("Magnetars")
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Dr. Kenji Hamaguchi
Assistant Research Scientist
Member of the
Suzaku
GOF.
Main Research Area(s):
Young stellar objects, wind-wind interactions in massive binary systems, and
astrobiology
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Dr Thomas Hams
Associate Research Scientist
Experimental particle physics, especially superconducting spectrometers and
Cherenkov Counters for long-duration ballon flights.
Main Research Area(s):
Astroparticle instrumentation, Cosmic-rays
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Dr. Masaharu Hirayama
Assistant Research Scientist
Pulsar tools manager in the development team of
the
GLAST/Large Area Telescope
(LAT)
Standard Analysis Environment (SAE) within the
GLAST
Science Support Center
(GSSC)
at
NASA/GSFC.
Also,
the lead of the FITS definition working group in the SAE
development team, I organize development of data formats for
distributions of
GLAST/LAT
data and ensures conform the FITS file
standards recommended by the
HEASARC
FITS Working Group.
Main Research Area(s): X-ray and Gamma-ray Pulsars
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Dr. John Lehan
Associate Research Scientist
The design and testing of
anamorphic optical systems, thin film optics, sputtering and vacuum
deposition techniques,
ultra-lightweight optics for space use, including grazing incidence X-ray
optics.
Main Research Area(s): Optical measurement technology and design
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Dr. James van Meter
Research Associate
Research scientist specialising in numerical simultaions of the mergers
of a binary black hole system
in support of the
Laser Interformetric
Space Antenna
(LISA) mission.
Main Research Area(s): Simulations of Gravitational Waves
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Dr. Koji Mukai
Senior Research Scientist
Expert in the use, calibration and software associated
with X-ray CCDs, and currently managing the
Suzaku GOF.
Main Research Area(s):
X-ray and multiwaveband studies of magnetic CVs, and
other interacting binaries
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Dr. Thomas Nelson
Research Associate
Tommy obtained a PhD from the Univ. Wisconsin-Madison in early 2009.
He is currently working closely with Dr. Koji Mukai on
XMM-Newton, Chandra and other X-ray satellite data
from white dwarfs, CVs, symbiotic stars and related objects.
Main Research Area(s): Shell-burning white dwarfs, and other
compact Galactic systems
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Dr. Tim Norton
Associate Research Science
Development of novel readout systems and high quantum efficiency
photoemissive layers for UV sensitive photon-counting detectors and of
NIR sensitive detectors for missions including TPF and
SNAP-JDEM/Destiny.
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Dr. Katja Pottschmidt
Assistant Research Scientist
Member of the INTEGRAL
GOF at NASA/GSFC: user support, archive
maintenance.
Main Research Area(s): X-ray binaries, especially black hole binaries
and accreting pulsars (cyclotron line sources), modeling of
high resolution X-ray timing processes and broad band spectra.
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Dr. Takanori Sakamoto
Research Associate
Team member of the Swift BAT, constructing
automatic pipeline scripts for the BAT GRB data and on-board calibration
of the energy response matrices of the BAT.
Main Research Area(s):
Gamma-ray Bursts
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Dr. Stephen Smith
Research Associate
Stephen obtained a PhD from the Univ. Leicester (UK), and has been
was an NPP at GSFC 2006-2009. His research
involves various aspects associated with the fabrication & testing of
position-sensitive transition-edge detectors.
Main Research Area(s): TES detector development,
vacuum & cryogenic systems, and signal processing algorithms
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Dr. Seunghee Son
Research Associate
Construction and characterization of the prototype 3-DTI detector, along
with the development of the front-end electronics.
Main Research Area(s):
Gamma-ray and neutron imaging detectors.
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Dr. Steve Sturner
Associate Research Scientist
Lead Scientist of the
Integral GOF and
Co-I on the SPI instrument.
Main Research Area(s):
Multiwavelength modeling of the non-thermal emission of SNRs, and
radiative processes in radio pulsars & XRBs, diffuse MeV emission and
Cosmic-ray interactions with outer solar system bodies.
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Dr. Vlasios Vasileiou
Research Associate
Main Research Area(s):
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List of former UMBC CRESST Scientists.
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Associate Research Scientist
