Education
Doctor Edward J. Weiler received his Doctor of Philosophy in astrophysics from Northwestern University in 1976.
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Edward Weiler
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Career
He has published numerous papers in the scientific journals. He joined Princeton in 1976 and was based at the Goddard Space Flight Center as the director of science operations of the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-3 (COPERNICUS). Doctor Weiler joined National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters in 1978 as a staff scientist and was promoted to the Chief of the Ultraviolet/Visible and Gravitational Astrophysics Division in 1979.
He also served as the Chief Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope from 1979 until 1998.
Before his 1998 appointment as Associate Administrator, he served as the Director of the Astronomical Search for Origins Program at National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters in Washington, District of Columbia He had served as the Associate Administrator for National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s Space Science Enterprise from 1998 to 2004. Under his leadership, the Enterprise had numerous successes, including the Chandra, NEAR, Map, FUSE, Spitzer Space Telescope, Mars Odyssey, and Mars Exploration Rover missions.
Doctor Weiler took over leadership of the Goddard Space Flight Center on August 1, 2004. He had been appointed as interim chief of the directorate on March 26 from his position of Center Director of Goddard Space Flight Center.
Membership
Prior to joining National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Doctor Weiler was a member of the Princeton University research staff
