Career Advising Event

TIME: Thursday Mar. 27, 2008 at 11:00 AM

PLACE: Physics Lounge, (Olin 106)

Jay Chervenak graduated from Wake Forest University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics. Jay went on to graduate school in physics at Brown University where he worked with Professor Jim Valles, studying electronic phenomena in superconducting films at ultralow temperatures. While there, he conducted experiments that involved the operation of cryogenic test equipment and explored techniques for film deposition and data acquisition.

After obtaining his PhD in Physics in 1997 he took a 3-year postdoctoral position with the Cryogenic Metrology group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, CO.  There, he worked on superconducting detector circuits and cryogenic setups for detector testing, calibration and scaling up to larger arrays.

Then, in 2000, Jay began his current job at NASA, Goddard Spaceflight Center as a lead engineer on superconducting detector projects.  His current work focuses on fabrication of large format detector arrays for space-flight missions and ground-based telescopes.