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Melville Ulmer

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy

About

Areas of Focus

  • Space optics and infrared detectors
  • Cosmology and transients
  • High contrast imaging for exoplanets

Work/Research

  • APERTURE, a NASA Innovative Advanced Concept project for large space telescopes
  • Developing a high-speed Near Infrared camera with funding from the W.M. Keck Foundation to image Earth-like planets orbiting in the habitable zone of their host planets
  • X-ray astronomy: clusters of galaxies and tidal disruption events

Career

Before coming to Northwestern in 1976, Ulmer spent four years at the University of California, San Diego and two years at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He became the Director of the Astrophysics Program at Northwestern University in 1983 and has been a professor since 1987. In addition, Ulmer was a charter member and co-investigator of the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE) on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. He has published more than 400 articles in journals and conference proceedings in his career and is a fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of SPIE, NIAC Fellow. Ulmer also has served on numerous NASA advisory and review panels.