Dr. Ron Elsner

X-Ray Astronomy Group
NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, AL 35812
elsner@avalon.msfc.nasa.gov

Ph.D., Physics, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1976
M.S., Physics, , University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1970
B.S., Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1969

Upon completion of his doctoral research, Dr. Elsner was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University from 1976-78. From 1978-80 Dr. Elsner was a National Research Council (NRC) Associate at NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center under the advisement of Dr. Martin Weisskopf. Dr. Elsner was hired as a civil servant in the X-Ray Astronomy Group in 1980, where he has since served with distinction.

While with the X-Ray Astronomy Group, Dr. Elsner's previous research interests have included: timing studies of accreting neutron stars in binaries; X-ray polarimetry; and development of Chandra X-Ray optics. Dr. Elsner's current research interests include: X-ray emission from Jupiter, its satellites and the Io plasma torus; X-ray optics from 0.1 to 100 keV; and X-ray binaries.

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