Dr. Conor Nixon

Dr. Conor Nixon has ten years experience in the field of infrared remote sensing from spacecraft platforms. This history includes the development, test, launch and operations of infrared spectrometer hardware; the design, coding, test and operations of ground data processing systems for such hardware; spacecraft command and control, thermal modeling and operations; and development of applications software. Dr. Nixon is highly experienced in applied methods of numerical computation such as Fourier transforms, optimal estimation theory, and statistical analysis. His employment history includes IBM (UK) Ltd., the Defense Research Agency of the UK Ministry of Defense, Oxford University, and currently the University of Maryland under contract to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Dr. Nixon is versed in the design and implementation of computer data systems in FORTRAN, C, C++ and Perl.
Dr. Nixon is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (B.A., M.A.) in Natural Sciences, the University of Manchester (M.Sc.) in Radio Astronomy, and the University of Oxford (D.Phil.) in Atmospheric Physics.
Dr. Nixon is fluent in English and has a working knowledge of French.