MEET: MATT GREENHOUSE, JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE PROJECT SCIENTIST FOR THE SCIENCE INSTRUMENT PAYLOAD

Matthew Greenhouse has served on the James Webb Space Telescope senior staff as Project Scientist for the JWST science instrument payload since 1997. He specializes in infrared imaging spectroscopy, and development of related instrumentation and technologies.

Greenhouse began work in infrared astronomy during 1979 when he joined the University of Arizona Steward Observatory as an instrument technician for balloon-borne and Kuiper Airborne Observatory instrument development. During 1983, he joined the Wyoming Infrared Observatory as a graduate student in physics. After receiving his doctorate during 1989, he joined the Smithsonian Institution Laboratory for Astrophysics where he remained as a Civil Service astrophysicist until 1996. He then joined the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a Civil Service astrophysicist.

Greenhouse graduated from the University of Arizona in 1979 with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Geoscience. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wyoming in 1989.

When he's not working, Matt is an avid sailor in Annapolis, Maryland where he lives with his wife and two children.