Robin Corbet

Astrophysics Science Division
NASA/GSFC
Code 662, X-ray Astrophysics
Greenbelt, MD 20771

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Present Position

Senior Scientist with University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Chief Duty Scientist RXTE Science Operations Facility
Operations Lead, GLAST Science Support Center

2007 - present: University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Senior Research Scientist. (Working at NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center)
2000 - 2007: Universities Space Research Association. Senior Research Scientist. (Working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).
September 1994 - 2000: Universities Space Research Association. Associate Research Scientist. (Working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).
October 1989 - September 1994: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University. Research Associate.
September 1987 - September 1989: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Royal Society Fellow.
November 1983 - September 1987: Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford. Post-Doctoral Research Assistant.

1980-1983: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London (Mullard Space Science Laboratory). PhD in Astrophysics.
Thesis title: "Optical Observations of Binary X-ray Sources".
1979-1980: Department of Physics, University of Leicester. MSc in Experimental Space Physics.
1976-1979: Department of Physics, University of Nottingham. BSc in Physics.

X-ray Binaries
Astrobiology

Monitoring and Discovering X-ray Pulsars in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Publications at the ADS website.