Reichart, Dan
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor
Contact
Office: 245 PhillipsEmail: reichart@physics.unc.edu
Phone: (919) 962-5310
Web page: http://www.facebook.com/SkynetRTN
Background
EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Ph.D. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2000
University of Chicago, M.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1998
Pennsylvania State University, B.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1996
Pennsylvania State University, B.S. Physics, 1996
Pennsylvania State University, B.S. Mathematics, 1996
Pennsylvania State University, Minor History, 1996
EMPLOYMENT
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor, 2012-
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bowman and Gordon Gray Associate Professor, 2010-2012
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Associate Professor, 2007-2010
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Assistant Professor, 2002-2007
California Institute of Technology, Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, 2000-2002
Carnegie Mellon University, Visiting Research Associate, 2000
University of Chicago, Research and Teaching Assistant, 1996-2000
Pennsylvania State University, Research Assistant, 1991-1996
OTHER
Director of the Skynet Robotic Telescope Network, 2005-
Director of the Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes (PROMPT), 2004-
Director of Morehead Observatory, 2008-
Research
Currently: robotic telescopes, optical and radio; genetic algorithm-based model fitting; image processing and measurement algorithms; gamma-ray bursts; introductory astronomy education