Stephen Schwartz

Dr. Stephen Schwartz

Senior Scientist

Currently resides in Florida

Targets of Interest: Asteroids, Comets, Deimos, Icy Satellites, Interplanetary Dust, Kuiper Belt, Phobos, Planetary Rings, Trans-Neptunian Objects

Disciplines/Techniques: Celestial Mechanics, Education/Public Outreach (EPO), Impacts, Numerical Modeling, Photometry

Missions: Hayabusa2 (Japan), Micromega (Hayabusa2, Osiris-Rex)

Dr. Steve Schwartz studies asteroid and cometary surface geophysics using spacecraft remote sensing data and numerical simulation. He is interested in applying numerical models of granular dynamics at different energy scales to study processes in the Solar System, as well as to spacecraft operations.