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Michael SHARA
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| Job Title |
| Curator and Curator-in-Charge, Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History. |
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| Biography |
| Prior to joining the American Museum of Natural History in 1999, Michael Shara was with the Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins for 17 years, where he was responsible for the peer review committees for the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Shara received his Ph.D. in 1977 from Tel-Aviv University. He holds a M.Sc. and B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, and studied mathematics at McGill University. He has been both visiting and adjunct professor at Columbia University; associate astronomer and astronomer with tenure at Space Telescope Science Institute; visiting assistant in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University; and National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Montreal. He was a graduate student and research assistant in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Tel-Aviv University and the Department of Astronomy at the University of Toronto. |
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| Field of Study |
| Shara's research interests include the structure and evolution of novae and supernovae, collisions between stars, and the nature of stellar populations in star clusters and galaxies.
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