《Brian Walko Grefenstette》.pdfVIP

Brian Walko Grefenstette Curriculum Vitae Address: Email: bwgref@srl.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology Space Radiation Laboratory 290-17 1200 East California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125 Office: (626) 395-8037 Mobile: (650) 387-3951 Citizenship: United States Research Interests High-energy processes in astrophysics, atmospheric physics, and space physics. Instrumentation development, calibration, and implementation. Education 2009 Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz Dissertation Title: Satellite Observations of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes 2007 M.S., Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz 2004 B.S., Physics, Stanford University Departmental Honors and Concentration in Astrophysics Work Experience 9/09 – curr Postdoctoral Researcher Space Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology • Member of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) Instrument Team. • Responsible for the design an implementation of the calibration experiments for the X-ray detectors for NuSTAR. • Responsible for data processing and data management for the ground-based calibration effort. • Responsible for the analysis, visualization, and intepretation of calibration data. 6/09 – 9/09 Postdoctoral Researcher Physics Department and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz • Development, calibration, and implementation of a suite of detectors for the remote sensing of X-ray and gamma-ray emission from lightning for the Airborne Detector for Energetic Lightning Emission (ADELE). 1 • Flight operations, data processing, and data management for the ADELE flights. • Pro