Dr. James Herald is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD). His work mainly concerns the spectral analysis of hot stars, both massive stars (such as O-type and Wolf-Rayet) and low/intermediate-mass objects such as central stars of planetary nebulae (CPSN), using stellar atmospheres codes. He adopts a multi-wavelength regime approach, using data from the Far-Ultraviolet Spectrographic Explorer (FUSE) in the Far-UV, Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data in the UV, and ground-based optical data.
He received his BS in computer science from Purdue University in 1990, and after working as a computer systems administrator at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Science, entered graduate school. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2000, where his dissertation work concerned Wolf-Rayet stars, luminous blue variables (LBVs), and CSPN. He was part of the science team of the 1995 Astro-2 Space Shuttle mission, and his dissertation work included the analysis of Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) data gathered during that mission.
Current mailing address:
The Johns Hopkins University
211 Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy
3400 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218-2695, USA
Email: Send mail to herald@pha.jhu.edu
Office: 211 Bloomberg
Phone: (410) 516-0236
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