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Dr. Lothringer will explain the science behind the first images and spectra from NASA's newest and biggest space telescope, JWST, including candidates for the most distant galaxy ever observed.
Dr. Josh Lothringer is an assistant professor of physics at Utah Valley University since 2021. He comes most recently from Baltimore, MD where he was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, home of the Space Telescope Science Institute. Before that, he received his PhD in Planetary Science at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in 2019 and a BA in Astronomy from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2014. He is the principal investigator of four Hubble Space Telescope programs and two James Webb Space Telescope programs to study the atmospheres of planets, brown dwarfs, and stars.