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Michael Arida
- Employer: S.P. Systems
- Job Description: Support Scientist
- Phone: (301) 286-2291
- e-mail: arida@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
Mike received his B.S. in Physics in 1991 from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute [RPI] in Troy, New York. While still an undergraduate, he worked for
GTE Sylvania in Towanda, Pennsylvania, conducting research into
electroluminescent devices. He later worked for Grumman Aerospace in
Princeton, New Jersey, assisting in the design of medium energy particle
accelerators.
Pursuing a desire to see the world, Mike joined the U.S. Peace Corps for a
two year stint teaching high school Chemistry and Physics in the small
central African country of Malawi, home to the ninth largest freshwater
lake in the world. He followed this with a 10 month English lecturer
position at Academia Istropolitana in Brastislava, Slovak Republic.
Perhaps finally settling down, Mike began working at Goddard in August, 1995 working for
the HEASARC, as a
member of the
ROSAT Guest Observer Facility. Now he works on XMM-Newton, as well as coordinating exhibits for astronomical meetings.
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