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-Planetquest" will be launched after JWST, sometime after 2013. Ann also serves on the GLAST User Committee; GLAST will be launched in fall of 2007 to survey the sky every day and a half in gamma rays. At home in La Canada Flintridge, she lives about a mile from SSI colleague Al Harris. She and her husband have two children, ages 9 and 13. Ann acts as a mentor for younger women who are making careers as scientists.
