Joshua Schlieder: Feet on the Ground, Head in destiny

Goddard astrophysicist Dr. Joshua Schlieder supports NASA’s Roman Space Telescope and Swift Observatory with imagination, neighborhood, and interest.

Call: Joshua Schlieder

Title: Wide Field Instrument Scientist for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and Operations Project Scientist for the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

Official Job Classification: Research Astrophysicist

Company: Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanets Laboratory, Astrophysics Division, Sciences and Exploration Directorate (Code 667)

What do you do and what is most intriguing about your function here at Goddard? How do you assist support Goddard’s objective?

As the Wide Field Instrument researcher for the Roman Space TelescopeI belong to the task science group and deal with other researchers, engineers, and supervisors to make sure that the Wide Field Instrumentthe main broad field study electronic camera on Roman, satisfies its science requirements.

As the operations job researcher for NASA’s Swift ObservatoryI deal with the primary detective and job group to guarantee that Swift is running effectively and getting information to satisfy our science objectives and the requirements of the astrophysics neighborhood.

I likewise do essential astrophysics research study concentrating on low-mass stars and their exoplanets.

What is your academic background?

From an extremely young age I was amazed by the natural world and was continuously attempting to comprehend how it worked. There wasn’t a concern I would not ask or a rock I would not commit comprehend a bit more. This interest led me to a B.S. in physics from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. I then got an M.A. and Ph.D. in physics with a concentration in astrophysics from Stony Brook University in New York.

How did you pertain to Goddard? Why do you remain?

From 2014– 2016, I had a postdoctoral fellowship at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California to establish science programs for the James Webb Space Telescope and examine information from the exoplanet searching K2 objective. In 2016, I went to the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology as a member of the Exoplanet Archive group. In 2017, I concerned Goddard to deal with the most recent exoplanet searching objective, TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

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