Brian Grefenstette

Brian works on hardware and mission development as well high energy astronomy. He is one of the principal mission scientists for NuSTAR and leads the calibration efforts. He is also the payload manager for the Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX) NASA MIDEX responsible for delivering the wide-field UV telescope and its cameras. He uses telescopes to study a wide range of astrophysical phenomena, from the leftover remnants of exploding stars to flares from the Sun and high energy emission from X-ray binaries.