Dr. Ann Wehrle joined SSI in May 2006 as a Senior Research Scientist. She received her bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College in 1978, and her doctorate from UCLA in 1987. Her research area is energy emission mechanisms in quasars and active galactic nuclei. She uses space borne and ground based telescopes to observe highly variable quasars, from radio through gamma rays. She was appointed to the Space Interferometry Mission Science Team in 2000 as Principal Investigator for observations of quasars and active galaxies. SIM, recently renamed "SIM-Lite", may be launched after JWST, sometime after 2014. Ann recently completed four years on the GLAST (now Fermi) User Committee; Fermi was launched in 2008 to survey the sky in gamma rays. At home in La Canada Flintridge, CA, (just north of JPL, near Pasadena) she lives about a mile from SSI colleague Al Harris. She and her husband have two children, ages 13 and 17. Ann acts as a mentor for younger women who are making careers as scientists.
