Stefan Immler

Employer: Universities Space Research Association

Job Description: Research Scientist, XMM-Newton GOF Support Scientist

Phone: (301) 286-0072

e-mail: immler@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov

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Stefan 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" 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.

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