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Fermi Team

Teamwork
The GLAST spacecraft and mission are the result of the effort and creativity of hundreds of scientists, engineers, programmers, technicians, and support personnel around the world. Here are some of the members of Fermi's project team.

Meet the Team

Dr. Bill Atwood
GLAST Co-Creator

Bill Atwood is an Adjunct Professor of Physics at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz.
Dr. Ronaldo Bellazzini
Coordinator and Principal Investigator of GLAST's Italian Team

Bellazzini is the coordinator and principal investigator of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics Italian team on GLAST.
Dr. Robert Cameron
Large Area Telescope Instrument Science Operations Center Manager (SLAC)

Cameron is the Large Area Telescope Instrument Science Operations Center (ISOC) Manager at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Patrizia Caraveo
Director of Research, Italian National Institute for Astrophysics

Patrizia A. Caraveo has been the Director of Research at The Italian National Institute for Astrophysics in Milano, Italy since 2002.
Dr. Per Carlson
Swedish GLAST Consortium

Dr. Per Carlson is is professor emeritus at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He started the Swedish participation in GLAST in 1999.
Dr. Lynn Cominsky
GLAST Astrophysicist and Education and Public Outreach Lead

Dr. Lynn Cominsky is an astrophysicist with decades of research experience and is also the GLAST Press Officer, and Education and Public Outreach lead.
Seth Digel
Experimental Physicist at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Seth Digel has worked on GLAST in various capacities for more than 10 years, at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Stanford University, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
Dr. Charles Dermer
GLAST Interdisciplinary Scientist and Astrophysicist

Chuck Dermer is head of the High Energy Radiation Modeling Section in the Space Science Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.
Dr. Eduardo do Couto e Silva
Particle Physicist and Deputy Manager of GLAST LAT Instrument Science Operations Center

Dr. Eduardo do Couto e Silva is a particle physicist and Deputy Manager of GLAST's Large Area Telescope (LAT) Instrument Science Operations Center.
Dr. Persis S. Drell
Professor and Director at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University

Dr. Drell's current research activities are in particle astrophysics.
Richard Dubois
Science Computing Coordinator for GLAST's Large Area Telescope (LAT)

Dubois has managed the scientific computing enterprise for GLAST's Large Area Telescope (LAT) since 2000.
Ken Fouts
LAT Instrument Project Manager, SLAC

Ken Fouts is the Large Area Telescope (LAT) Instrument Project Manager at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Menlo Park, Calif.
Dr. Neil Gehrels
Deputy Project Scientist for GLAST

Dr. Neil Gehrels is the Chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Md.
Mr. Kevin Grady
GLAST Program Manager

Kevin Grady is the GLAST Program Manager and is responsible for the overall management and implementation of the GLAST mission.
Dr. Isabelle Grenier
Professor of Astrophysics and co-Investigator on the Large Area Telescope

Greiner is a co-Investigator on the Large Area Telescope (LAT) for GLAST.
Dr. Jochen Greiner
GLAST Burst Monitor Principal Co-Investigator

Jochen Greiner is Head of the Gamma-Ray Group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial (MPE) Physics in Garching, Germany. He is the GLAST Burst Monitor Principal Co-Investigator and also a lecturer at the Technical University in Munich, Germany.
Dr. J. Eric Grove
GLAST LAT Commissioner and Astrophysicist, U.S. Naval Laboratory

Dr. J. Eric Grove joined the GLAST mission in 1994, and since 2006 he has served as the GLAST Large Area Telescope (LAT) Commissioner.
Dr. F. Rick Harnden, Jr
GLAST Program Scientist

Dr. Rick Harnden is the GLAST Program Scientist for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
Joy Henegar-Leon
GLAST Spacecraft Mission Director

Joy Henegar-Leon is responsible for the integration and test of the instruments and spacecraft, in addition to the integration of the flight and ground segments for the GLAST mission.
Dr. Neil Johnson
GLAST LAT Deputy PI for Instrument / Observatory Operations

Dr. W. Neil Johnson is the Deputy Principal Investigator for Instrument / Observatory Operations for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on GLAST.
Robert Johnson
Deputy Director, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics

Robert Johnson is a Full Professor of Physics at the University of California Santa Cruz and Deputy Director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP).
Dr. Giselher Lichti
GLAST Burst Monitor Principal Co-Investigator (Retired)

Dr. Giselher Lichti is a research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer extrater-restrische Physik in Germany, and the Co-Principal Investigator of the GLAST Burst Monitor instrument (GBM).
Julie Mc Enery
Astrophysicist and Deputy Project Scientist for GLAST

Julie Mc Enery is an Astrophysicist and Deputy Project Scientist for GLAST.
Charles A. Meegan
Astrophysicist and GLAST Burst Monitor Principal Investigator

Charles A. Meegan is an Astrophysicist at the Space Science Department of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Ala.
Dr. Peter Michelson
GLAST LAT Principal Investigator

Michelson is a Professor of Physics at Stanford University. His research interests are in the field of high energy astrophysics, particularly X-ray and gamma-ray observations and instrument development.
Dr. Takashi Oshugi
Particle Physicist and Professor at Hiroshima University

Takashi Ohsugi is a professor and particle physicist at Hiroshima University, Japan.
Martin Karl Wilhelm Pohl
GLAST Interdisciplinary Scientist

Martin Karl Wilhelm Pohl is an astrophysicist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University.
Dr. Steven Ritz
GLAST Project Scientist and Astrophysicist

Steven Ritz is the GLAST Project Scientist and an astrophysicist in the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, Astrophysics Science Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Dr. J.J. Russell
Lead Scientist for LAT Flight Software Development (SLAC)

Dr. J.J. Russell is the lead scientist for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) flight software development on GLAST.
Dr. David A. Smith
GLAST group co-leader, Centre d’Etudes Nucleaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan (CENBG)

David A. Smith is the GLAST group co-leader at the Centre d’Etudes Nucleaires (Center of Nuclear Studies) de Bordeaux-Gradignan (CENBG), France.
Jana Thayer
Manager for the Large Area Telescope flight software group (SLAC)

Dr. Jana Thayer is the Manager for the Large Area Telescope flight software group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California.
Dr. David Thompson
GLAST Deputy Project Scientist, LAT Instrument Multiwavelength Coordinator

David Thompson is the GLAST Deputy Project Scientist who serves as the Multiwavelength Coordinator for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Gamma ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST).
Stephen Thorsett
Fermi Space Telescope Science Working Group Member

Stephen Thorsett has been a Fermi Space Telescope Science Working Group member since 2000.
Dr. Kathleen Turner
GLAST/LAT Program Scientist

Dr. Kathleen Turner works in the Office of High Energy Physics in the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).