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California Institute of Technology. Stanford University; University of California, Los Los Angeles
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Amy Mainzer
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She is the Deputy Project Scientist for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Principal Investigator for the NEOWISE project to study minor planets and the proposed Near Earth Object Camera space telescope mission. Mainzer received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Stanford University with honors (1996), and holds an Master of Science in Astronomy from California Institute of Technology (2000) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Astronomy from the University of California, Los Angeles (2003)
Her research interests include asteroids, brown dwarfs, planetary atmospheres, debris disks, star formation and the design and construction of new groundand space-based instrumentation. Asteroid (234750) Amymainzer was named after her.
She has appeared a number of times in the History Channel series The Universe.
She also appears in the documentary featurette "Stellar Cartography: On Earth" included on the Star Trek Generations home video release (March 2010). She serves as the science consultant and host for the live-action interstitials on the Public Broadcasting Service Kids series Ready Jet Go! debuting Winter 2016.
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