Brief Bio
Stefan Immler is an Associate Research Scientist at NASA/GSFC and the lead of the Swift Guest Investigator Program.
He received his M.Sc. in Physics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the LMU in 2000. He spent many years working on instrumentation for space missions as an undergraduate and graduate student, and later wrote his thesis on the "X-Ray Source Population of Spiral Galaxies" (supervisor Prof. J. Trümper) at the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE). He subsequently worked at the University of Massachusetts (with Prof. Daniel Wang) and The Pennsylvania State University (with Prof. Niel Brandt) as a post-doc, before joining the XMM-Newton Guest Observer Facility at NASA/GSFC as a research and support scientist in February 2004. Since 2005 he is a duty scientist in the Swift Science Center at NASA/GSFC and the lead of the Swift Guest Investigator Program. He has been teaching astronomy and cosmology classes at the University of Maryland and at the George Washington University as a Professorial Lecturer.
Brief Bio
Stefan Immler is an Associate Research Scientist at NASA/GSFC and the lead of the Swift Guest Investigator Program.
He received his M.Sc. in Physics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the LMU in 2000. He spent many years working on instrumentation for space missions as an undergraduate and graduate student, and later wrote his thesis on the "X-Ray Source Population of Spiral Galaxies" (supervisor Prof. J. Trümper) at the Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE). He subsequently worked at the University of Massachusetts (with Prof. Daniel Wang) and The Pennsylvania State University (with Prof. Niel Brandt) as a post-doc, before joining the XMM-Newton Guest Observer Facility at NASA/GSFC as a research and support scientist in February 2004. Since 2005 he is a duty scientist in the Swift Science Center at NASA/GSFC and the lead of the Swift Guest Investigator Program. He has been teaching astronomy and cosmology classes at the University of Maryland and at the George Washington University as a Professorial Lecturer.
