Dr. John C. Vernaleo

Astrophysics Science Division
NASA/GSFC
Code 661.0,
Greenbelt, MD 20771

tel: 301-286-0915
fax: 301-286-1215
e-mail: John.C.Vernaleo @ nasa.gov

Present Position

Scientific Programmer

Employed by Wyle Labs for the
Fermi Science Support Center

Brief Bio

After studying both Physics and Philosophy at the University of Rochester I went to graduate school at the University of Maryland and completed my Ph.D. titled "Hydrodynamic Models of AGN Feedback in Cooling Core Clusters" under the direction of Dr. Christopher Reynolds in 2008. Immediately after (give or take a long weekend) I started at Goddard as a programmer for the Fermi (formerly GLAST) mission.

Educational Background

Ph.D., Astronomy, University of Maryland, 2008

M.S., Astronomy, University of Maryland, 2003

B.S., Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, 2001

B.A., Philosophy, University of Rochester, 2001

Research Interests

High performance computing and modeling in astrophysics

Data visualization

General data handling/manipulation in astrophysics

Galaxy cluster/AGN interactions

Current Projects

Fermi ScienceTools
(an ftools like suite of tools to analyze data from the Fermi mission)

Fermi LAT data server

Selected Publications

Publications at the ADS website.