Kenneth G. Carpenter

Kenneth Carpenter is currently the Project Scientist for Hubble Space Telescope Operations and splits his time between those duties, leading the Stellar Imager mission concept study, and scientific research. Dr. Carpenter's scientific interes ts include studies of the chromospheres, transition regions, winds and circumstellar shells of cool stars, as well as the calculation of model atmospheres and synthetic spectra and investigations of line fluorescence processes; hardware interests include development and operations of UV spectroscopic instruments and large baseline space interferometers.