Curtis Odell

Astrophysics Science Division
NASA/GSFC
Code 660.0, Division Office
Greenbelt, MD 20771

tel: (301) 286-8802
fax: (301) 286-0250
e-mail: Curtis.E.Odell @ nasa.gov

Present Position

2007 - present Assistant Director, Astrophysics Science Division

Previous Positions

1994 - 2007 Laboratory Manager, Instrument Development Group, co-located in the X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory, ASD, SED, GSFC.
2001 - 2005 Instrument Manager for Astro-E2/XRT
1993 - 1994 Lead Detector Technician, X-ray Astrophysics Branch, LHEA
1989 - 1993 Detector Technician, Hughes STX Corporation, Instrument Development Branch, LHEA, GSFC
1984 - 1989 Solar Observer, Big Bear Solar Observatory, Big Bear City, CA
Operated by California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Brief Bio

Educational Background

1974 B.S. degree, Industrial Arts Education, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA

Research Interests

Current Projects

2004 - 2005 I & T for GLAST/Large Area Telescope/Anti-Coincidence Detector

2001 - present Instrument management of the Astro-E2 X-Ray Telescope Project

2000 Technical management of the InFOCuS Mirror effort

1995 - 2000 Technical management of the ASTRO-E X-Ray Telescope Project

1989 - 1995 Detector development for the X-ray Timing Explorer Proportional Counter Array Project

Selected Publications

“The Proportional Counter Array (PCA) Instrument for the X-ray Timing Explorer Satellite (XTE)”, Glasser, C.A., Odell, C.E., and Seufert, S.E., 1994, Proceedings of the 1993 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, CA, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 41, Num. 4, pg. 1343.