Dr. Kim Weaver
Spitzer Space Telescope Program Scientist
NASA Headquarters, Washington

Dr. Kim Weaver is the program scientist for the Spitzer Space Telescope at NASA Headquarters. She began studying astronomy at the University of Maryland at College Park and discovered the world of high-energy astrophysics as a graduate researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. After receiving her doctorate from the University of Maryland, Weaver moved on to postgraduate work at Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa., and then to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., where she is currently affiliated as an adjunct associate professor. In 1996, she won a NASA Presidential Early Career Award to pursue research in extragalactic astronomy. Weaver returned to Goddard in 1998. In addition to conducting scientific research, Weaver serves as the deputy project scientist for a future NASA mission, Constellation-X, which is part of NASA's Beyond Einstein program.

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