7/05 -- present Senior Scientist, USRA and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
7/99 -- 7/05 Associate Research Scientist, USRA and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
7/98 -- 7/99 Elliott Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Hampden-Sydney College.
7/94 -- 7/98 Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Hampden-Sydney College.
9/91 -- 7/94 Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
9/84 -- 9/91 Research/Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago.
9/83 -- 9/84 Department Paraprofessional, The Colorado College.
Research
Gamma-ray Bursts and Counterparts, X-Ray Astronomy, Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Analysis of data from and operations of the Swift MIDEX mission.
Development of InFOCuS balloon instrument.
Projects
Analysis of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and hard X-ray transient data from Swift.
Maintain and improve the Swift/BAT hard X-ray transient monitor
and maintain the public web site; publish the results.
Participate in joint Swift GRB observations with ROTSE (as a co-investigator), Konus/WIND, Suzaku/WAM and GLAST.
Participate, as an Associate Member of VERITAS, in multiwavelength blazar observing campaigns involving Swift/BAT.
Work on various tasks required to prepare InFOCµS for its next balloon campaign.
Education
Dec. 1991 Ph.D., Physics, The University of Chicago. Thesis title: "A Search for Point Sources of Ultra-High Energy Gamma Rays with an Emphasis on the Binary System Cygnus X-3" Thesis advisor: Professor James W. Cronin.
June 1986 M.S., Physics, The University of Chicago.
June 1983 B.A., Magna cum laude, Physics, The Colorado College.
Publications
Krimm, H. A. et al., (2007), "Discovery of the Accretion-powered Millisecond Pulsar SWIFT J1756.9-2508 with a Low-Mass Companion," Ap. J, 668, L147.
Krimm, H. A. et al., (2007), "GRB 060714: No Clear Dividing Line between Prompt Emission and X-Ray Flares," Ap. J, 665, 554.
Krimm, H. A. et al., (2006), "GRB 050717: A Long, Short-Lag, High-Peak Energy Burst Observed by Swift and Konus," Ap. J, 648, 1117.
Roming, P. W. A. et al., (2006), "GRB 060313: A New Paradigm for Short-Hard Bursts?," Ap. J, 651, 985.
O'Brien, P. T. et al., (2006), "The Early X-Ray Emission from GRBs," Ap. J, 647, 1213.
Brocksopp, C. et al., (2006), "The 2005 outburst of GRO J1655-40: spectral evolution of the rise, as observed by Swift," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 365, 1203.
Rykoff, E. S. et al., (2005), "Prompt Optical Detection of GRB 050401 with ROTSE-IIIa," Ap. J, 631, L121.
Burrows, D.N. et al., (2005), "Bright X-ray Flares in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows," Science, 309, 1833.
Tagliaferri, G. et al., (2005), "An unexpectedly rapid decline in the X-ray afterglow emission of long gamma-ray bursts," Nature, 436, 985.
Berendse, Fred et al., (2003), "Production and performance of the InFOCµS 20-40 keV graded multilayer mirror," Applied Optics, 42, 1856.
Krimm, H.A., Vanderspek, R.K., and Ricker, G.R., (1996), "Searches for Optical Counterparts of BATSE Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Explosive Transient Camera," A & A Suppl. Series, 120, 251.
Cronin, J.W. et al., (1992), "Search for Discrete Sources of 100 TeV Gamma Radiation," Phys. Rev. D, 45, 4385.
