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Faculty Profile Last Modified Time: 07:49:09 AM Mon, 11 Jul 2011   Contact Information Ohad Shemmer Assistant Professor-Physics     ohad@unt.edu     940-369-8110     940-369-7792    Graduate Faculty Membership Status: Full Membership-Permanent    Associated Profiles Professional Preparation Courses Taught By Semester Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness Appointments Faculty Workload Publications Editorships Lectures/Symposia External Funding Intramural Funding Peer Reviewer Activities Teaching Committees Memberships Professional Community Engagement  Professional Preparation  Degree Major/Thesis/Dissertation Institution Year  Doctor of Philosophy Physics and Astronomy. Thesis Title: ‘Black Hole Mass, Accretion Rate, and Metal Abundances in Active Galactic Nuclei’ Tel Aviv University, Israel 2005  Master of Science Physics and Astronomy. Thesis Title: ‘Periodic Microvariation of B416, a Luminous Blue Variable in M33' Tel Aviv University, Israel 1999  Bachelor of Science Physics Tel Aviv University, Israel 1997  Courses Taught By Semester --- Organized Classes will be uploaded from THECB Data file Semester Subject Course Number Section Course Name Calculated Semester Credit Hours Syllabus   Spring 2011 PHYS 1062 2 Stars and the Universe   Download Syllabus Fall 2010 PHYS 1062 3 Stars and the Universe   Download Syllabus Spring 2010 PHYS 4980 1 Experimental Course 45   Spring 2010 PHYS 4980 201 Experimental Course 0   Fall 2009 PHYS 1062 3 Stars and the Universe 441    Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness -- SETE scores are based on a 1000 point scale Semester Subject Course Number Section Course Name % Participation Organization and Explanation of Materials Learning Environment Self-Regulated Learning Overall Teaching Effectiveness Score Teaching Classification Fall 2010 PHYS 1062 3 STARS & THE UNIV 15% 749 716 740 670    Appointments Duration (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Rank Department / School College / Office University / Company 2008-present Assistant Professor Department of Physics   University of North Texas 2006-2008 Research Associate Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics   Pennsylvania State University 2004-2006 Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics   Pennsylvania State University 1997-2004 Research and Teaching Assistant School of Physics and Astronomy   Tel Aviv University  Faculty Workload Duration (YYYY - YYYY) Percentage Teaching Percentage Research Percentage Service 2010-2011 30 60 10 2009-2010 30 60 10  Publications   Type AllOtherRefereed(Peer reviewed) JournalsConference paperMagazine/newsletter articlesAbstracts and Proceedings Publications per page    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next>> 16>>    Year Publication   Type 2011 Published In Search of Quasar Host Galaxies Young, J., Eracleous, M., Gronwall, C., Shemmer, O., Netzer, H., Sturm, E., & Ciardullo, R. American Astronomical Society Meeting 215, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, #421.04 Abstracts and Proceedings 2011 Published AGN Science with LSST Gibson, R.R., et al. (including Shemmer, O.) American Astronomical Society Meeting 215, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, #252.17 Abstracts and Proceedings 2011 Published Did Weak-line Quasars Just Begin an Active Phase? Plotkin, R.M., Anderson, S.F., Brandt, W.N., Diamond-Stanic, A.M., Fan, X., MacLeod, C.L., Markoff, S., Schneider, D.P., & Shemmer, O. American Astronomical Society Meeting 215, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, #230.02 Abstracts and Proceedings 2011 Published Weak-Line Quasars at High Redshift: Extremely High Accretion Rates or Anemic Broad-Line Regions? Shemmer, O., et al. American Astronomical Society Meeting 215, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, #230.01 Abstracts and Proceedings 2011 Published A Population of X-Ray Weak Quasars: PHL 1811 Analogs at High Redshift Wu, J., Brandt, W.N., Hall, P.B., Gibson, R.R., Richards, G.T., Schneider, D.P., Shemmer, O., Just, D.W., & Schmidt, S.J. ApJ, 736, 28 Refereed(Peer reviewed) Journals  Editorships Duration (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Organization Position Classification 2009-Present Astrophysics and Space Science Reviewer Service 2009-Present The Astrophysical Journal Letters Reviewer Service 2007-Present Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Reviewer Service 2004-Present The Astrophysical Journal Reviewer Service 2009 The Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards Reviewer Service  Lectures/Symposia Year Title Role Organization 2011 Solving the Mystery of Weak Emission Line Quasars at High Redshift Invited Talk Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ 2010 Multiwavelength Insights into the Nature of Weak Emission-Line Quasars at High Redshift Invited Talk Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 2010 Multiwavelength Insights into the Nature of Weak Emission-Line Quasars at High Redshift Invited Talk Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada 2009 Multiwavelength Insights into the Nature of Weak Emission-Line Quasars at High Redshift Invited Talk Technion, Haifa, Israel 2009 Multiwavelength Insights into the Nature of Weak Emission-Line Quasars at High Redshift Invited Talk Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 2008 Tracing the History of Black-Hole Growth Across Cosmic Time Invited Talk University of North Texas, Denton, TX 2006 A Multiwavelength View of Powerful Active Galactic Nuclei at High Redshift Invited Talk Technion, Haifa, Israel 2003 Probing Quasar Metal Enrichment and Energy Production at High Redshift Invited Talk Yale University, Newhaven, CT 2003 Probing Quasar Metal Enrichment and Energy Production at High Redshift Invited Talk ESO, Garching, Germany  External Funding  Performance Period (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Title Sponsor Funding Role Status 2011 Chandra Cycle 12, program #12700318 NASA $31.3k Principal Investigator Active 2011 Herschel OT1, program #OT1_hnetzer_2 NASA $28.6k Co-PI Active 2009 XMM-Newton Cycle 7, program #55175 NASA $47.0k Principal Investigator Active 2008 Swift Cycle 4, program #04067 NASA $32.0k Principal Investigator Completed 2007 HST Cycle 16, program #11222 Space Telescope Science Institute $70.0k Co-PI Active 2006 Spitzer Cycle 3, program #30476 NASA $30.0k Principal Investigator Completed 2006 Spitzer Cycle 3, program #30314 NASA $17.5k Co-PI Completed 2006 XMM-Newton Cycle 5, program #40207 NASA $67.7k Principal Investigator Completed 2005 Spitzer Cycle 2, program #20493 NASA $16.5k Co-PI Completed 2005 XMM-Newton Cycle 4, program #30238 NASA $52.5k Principal Investigator Completed 2004 The Wiederman Paul award for academic excellence Tel Aviv University $1.0k Other Completed  Intramural Funding  Performance Period (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Title Sponsor Funding Role Status 2010 Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship University of North Texas $5.0k Principal Investigator Completed 2010 Faculty Research Grant University of North Texas $7.5k Principal Investigator Active 2009 Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship University of North Texas $5.0k Principal Investigator Completed 2009 Faculty Research Grant University of North Texas $5.0k Principal Investigator Completed  Peer Reviewer Activities Year Agency/Organization Field of Expertise 2010 UNT Research Initiation Grant panel member 2010 NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory Time Allocation Committee AGN panel 2009-2010 ESA XMM-Newton Time Allocation Committee AGN panel 2008-2009 NASA Swift Time Allocation Committee AGN panel  Teaching `High Energy Astrophysics' (ASTRO-550)   2006: Pennsylvania State University. Taught part of this graduate course. `Introduction to Modern Astrophysics' (PHYS 4980)   2010-present: University of North Texas. `Mechanics and Electromagnetism'   2001-2004: Tel Aviv University. For first-year undergraduate students (five semesters). `Physics Laboratory B1 and B2' (0321.2121 and 0321.2122)   1997-2001: Tel Aviv University. For second-year undergraduate students (eight semesters). `Starbursts and AGN' (ASTRO-597A)   2005: Pennsylvania State University. Gave a guest lecture in this graduate course. `Stars and the Universe' (PHYS 1062)   2008-present: University of North Texas.  Committees Duration (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Committee Position Classification 2009-Present Undergraduate Committee, Department of Physics, University of North Texas Chair   2009 Program for the 215th. Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Abstract Sorter AGN  Memberships Duration (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Organization Position Classification 2008-present International X-ray Observatory Science Team Associate Member Memberships and Professional Collaborations 2006-present Active Galactic Nuclei Science Collaboration for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Member Memberships and Professional Collaborations 2006-present American Astronomical Society Member Memberships and Professional Collaborations  Professional Community Engagement Year Organization Role Type of Service 2011 `The X-ray Universe 2011', European Space Agency meeting, Berlin, Germany contributed talk Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2011 217th. American Astronomical Society meeting, Seattle, WA two contributed talks, two contributed posters Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2010 215th. American Astronomical Society meeting, Washington, DC four contributed posters, session Chair Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2009 Five Years of Swift meeting, State College, PA contributed poster Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2009 213th. American Astronomical Society meeting, Long Beach, CA contributed talk, contributed poster Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2007 X-ray Surveys: Evolution of Accretion, Star-Formation and the Large Scale Structure’ 2007 meeting, Rodos, Greece contributed talk Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2007 ‘Obscured AGN Across Cosmic Time’ 2007 meeting, Seeon, Bavaria, Germany contributed talk Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2007 209th. American Astronomical Society 2007 meeting, Seattle, WA contributed talk Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2006 ‘Active Galactic Nuclei: From Atoms to Black Holes’ meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel invited talk Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2006 High Energy Astrophysics Division 2006 meeting, San Francisco, CA contributed poster Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2005 ‘The X-ray Universe 2005’ meeting, El Escorial, Madrid, Spain contributed talk Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2004 ‘The 2004 Ringberg Castle Workshop on AGN Physics’ meeting, Ringberg Castle, Germany invited talk Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2003 ‘AGN Physics with the SDSS’ meeting, Princeton NJ contributed talk Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2002 ‘Active Galactic Nuclei: from Central Engine to Host Galaxy’ meeting, Meudon, France contributed poster Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2000 Guillermo Haro Advanced Lectures, ‘The Starburst-AGN Connection’, Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico contributed poster Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 2000 Meeting on the 1999 Leonid Meteor Storm, ‘Leonids 1999’, Tel Aviv, Israel con¬tributed talk Active Participation in Scientific Meetings 1999 WE-Heraeus-seminar no. 226, ‘Observational and theoretical progress in the study of Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies’, Bad-Honnef, Germany contributed poster Active Participation in Scientific Meetings