Mike earned his PhD in Astronomy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1980. He did Post-Doc work at the University of Minnesota and Kitt Peak National Observatory. He was the Director of the Cincinnati Observatory (1986-1998), a public outreach facility formerly operated by the University of Cincinnati and serves on the Board of Directors of the Cincinnati Observatory Center (2002-present), now a non-profit corporation. Mike is now at the Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati and has been with SSI since 2005.
Mike’s research interests have included: non-thermal emission processes in active galactic nuclei, ultraviolet studies of the Red Rectangle nebula, the formation and evolution of protostellar disks, solar system formation, comets, and interplanetary dust particles. Current projects include: infrared spectroscopic observations of young stars with disks of gas and dust as part of a joint effort with X-ray observations using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and coronagraphic imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope.
