Michael A. Pahre
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street, Mail Stop 20
Cambridge, MA 02140 USA
(617) 495-7073 mpahre@cfa.harvard.edu
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~mpahre/

Education

1992-1998

Ph. D. in Astronomy, California Institute of Technology. Thesis title: Elliptical Galaxies: Structure, Stellar Content, and Evolution. Advisor: S. G. Djorgovski. Honors: Jesse L. Greenstein Fellowship, Kingsley Fellowship.

1985-1989

A. B. Cum Laude, Harvard University, concentration: physics and astronomy. Senior Thesis: A Multilevel Study of the Interactions and Kinematics of Secondary Star Formation Mechanisms in G34.3+0.2; advisor: P. T. P. Ho. Junior Paper: Speckle Observations of $\eta$-Carina and R136a; advisor: R. Noyes. Honors: Dean's List.

Research and Teaching Experience

1998-

Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Faculty sponsor: J. P. Huchra.

1992-1997

Research Assistant, Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology. Supervisors: S. G. Djorgovski, S. E. Persson, J. R. Mould. Infrared imaging, infrared instrument development, optical and infrared data reduction.

1993-1995

Teaching Assistant, Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology. Courses: undergraduate extragalactic astronomy, instrumentation; graduate interstellar medium, interferometry.

1992

Teaching Assistant, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University. Undergraduate introduction to astronomy.

1991-1992

Astronomer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Submillimeter Array Group. Supervisor: P. T. P. Ho. Molecular line observations of star formation; the galactic center.

1989-1991

Secondary School Physics Teacher, U. S. Peace Corps Volunteer, Nkroful, Ghana, West Africa. Taught Ordinary and Advanced Level physics at a rural high school, averaging over 20 classroom hours of instruction per week. Developed an instructional reference book for laboratory work.

1987-1988

Research Assistant, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Speckle Imaging Group. Supervisors: C. Papaliolios and P. Nisenson. Co-developed software for data reductions; analyzed speckle data.

Technical Experience

Instrument Development

Part of team that developed IR camera for Palomar 60$''$ telescope; experience included constructing and debugging electronics, optical alignment, working with cryogens, and related tasks.

Electronics

Low-noise readout electronics for HgCdTe NICMOS3 infrared array detector; analog and digital coursework; construction of a complete microcomputer, using 68020 cpu.

Computers

Languages: Fortran, Assembly, and Pascal. Operating systems: Unix (SunOS, LynxOS, and Solaris) and VMS. Have constructed many HTML documents, public and secured, for WWW. Data reduction: IRAF, AIPS, and Figaro packages for astronomy.

Observing

Extensive experience with many different telescopes, using both optical and infrared instruments. Also experience at sub-mm to cm wavelengths using CSO and Haystack telescopes.

Research Interests

Elliptical Galaxies

Scaling relations, evolution, stellar populations.

Faint Field Galaxy Population

Galaxy counts, redshift surveys, galaxy evolution.

High-Redshift Universe

Protogalaxies, QSO luminosity function.

Clusters of Galaxies

Multicolor detection techniques, Butcher-Oemler effect.

Instrumentation

Infrared imaging detectors, wide-field multiobject spectroscopy.

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