Amy Mainzer date of birth:
1974
How old is Amy Mainzer?
51
What color is Amy Mainzer's hair?
Brown - Dark
What is Amy Mainzer's ethnicity?
White
What is Amy Mainzer nationality?
American
Where did Amy Mainzer go to university?
Stanford University (B.S., Physics), California Institute of Technology (M.S., Astronomy), University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D., Astronomy)
What is Amy Mainzer's occupation?
Astronomer
Amy Mainzer claim to fame:
beautiful astrophysicist from `The Universe`
Short Biography
Amy Mainzer (born 1974) is an American astronomer, specializing in astrophysical instrumentation and infrared astronomy. She is the Deputy Project Scientist for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Principal Investigator for the NEOWISE project to study minor planets and the proposed Near Earth Object Camera space telescope mission. She has appeared a number of times in the History Channel series The Universe. She also appears in the documentary featurette "Stellar Cartography: On Earth" included on the Star Trek Generations home video release (March 2010). She serves as the science consultant and host for the live-action interstitials on the PBS Kids series Ready Jet Go! debuting Winter 2016.