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CXC Biographies: Jeremy Drake
Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Jeremy Drake is an Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research has included
work in different fields of astrophysics, including: stellar
atmospheres, stellar coronae and activity; the chemical compositions
of stars and stellar evolution; the interstellar medium; EUV-X-ray
spectroscopy; and X-ray instrumentation.
Drake was an undergraduate at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne,
and obtained a doctorate in Astrophysics at Oxford University in
1989. He held a NATO postdoctoral fellowship at the University of
Texas at Austin between 1990-1992, where he worked on the chemical
compositions stars and stellar evolution. He took up a postdoctoral
fellowship at the Center for EUV Astrophysics of the University of
California, Berkeley, during 1992-1993, followed by a position as
Research Astronomer from 1993-1995. In Berkeley, Drake worked in
areas including stellar outer atmospheres and magnetic activity, and
research involving the NASA Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer satellite.
He took up his present position at the Smithsonian Astrophysical
Observatory in 1995, where he works with the Chandra X-ray
Observatory and different areas of X-ray astronomy and stellar
physics.
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