Robert Osiander

Robert Osiander Dr. Osiander received his Ph. D. in Physics from the Technical University in Munich, Germany, in 1991. He is presently Assistant Group Supervisor of the Sensor Science Group in the Research & Technology Development Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. His current research interests include Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Nanotechnology, and Terahertz Imaging and Spectroscopy. He was the PI on “MEMS Shutters for Spacecraft Thermal Control”, one of NASA's New Millennium Space Technology Missions launched in 2007., and is presently the PI on WISPERS, a MEMS plasma spectrometer for FalconSAT, and an optically transduced MEMS Gyroscope. Dr. Osiander was the corecipient of the 2002 APL Invention of the Year Award. His bio includes 8 US Patents and more than 80 publications, including Editor of “MEMS and Micro-structures in Aerospace Applications.”