Robin H Corbet

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Robin H Corbet

  • ASTROPHYSICIST
  • 301.286.2851 | 301.286.0708
  • Org Code: 662
  • NASA/GSFC
  • Mail Code: 662
  • Greenbelt, MD 20771
  • Employer: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY
  • Curriculum Vitae



    Brief Bio

  • 2007 - present: University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Senior Research Scientist. (Working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
  • 2000 - 2007: Universities Space Research Association. Senior Research Scientist. (Working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).
  • September 1994 - 2000: Universities Space Research Association. Associate Research Scientist. (Working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).
  • October 1989 - September 1994: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University. Research Associate.
  • September 1987 - September 1989: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Royal Society Fellow.
  • November 1983 - September 1987: Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford. Post-Doctoral Research Assistant.

    Research

    X-ray Binaries
    Astrobiology

    Projects

    Monitoring and Discovering X-ray Pulsars in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
    Variability of gamma-ray binaries.
    Long term variability of X-ray binaries with the RXTE ASM, Swift BAT etc.

    Education

  • 1980-1983: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London (Mullard Space Science Laboratory). PhD in Astrophysics.
    Thesis title: "Optical Observations of Binary X-ray Sources".
  • 1979-1980: Department of Physics, University of Leicester. MSc in Experimental Space Physics.
  • 1976-1979: Department of Physics, University of Nottingham. BSc in Physics.

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