Present PositionResearch Scientist, GSFC/USRA/CRESST, Swift Science CenterBrief BioStefan Immler 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 as a research and support scientist in February 2004. Since 2005 he is a duty scientist in the Swift Science Center at NASA/GSFC.Educational BackgroundResearch InterestsX-ray and UV emission from galaxies and supernovae, in particular: interaction of SN shocks with their environments.Current ProjectsStudies of young supernovae with Swift in the optical, UV and X-rays.Swift Survey of nearby galaxies. Selected PublicationsPublications at the ADS website.
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