Frank J. Masci – IPAC Staff Scientist

Frank Masci was born and raised in Melbourne, a port-side city located in Australia's south-east. He received a BSc (Hons) degree in Physics in 1993 and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Melbourne in 1997 under the supervision of Dr. Rachel Webster - a former student of Sir Martin Rees. Frank was hired in 1998 as a post-doc at IPAC/Caltech to support the Wide-field Infra-Red Explorer mission (WIRE). At that time, the WISE project (then NGSS) was being conceived. He then joined the Spitzer Science Center (SSC) at Caltech in 2000 where he served as Cognizant Scientist for data processing and astrometric calibration. He later became Deputy Downlink System Engineer. He joined the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) project in May 2007 where he is currently the Cognizant Scientist for instrumental calibration and image coaddition/mosaicking. Frank's research interests are in quasars, cosmic large scale structure, and astrostatistics. In his spare time he enjoys mountain climbing, skiing, tennis, cooking, and pondering the intricate patterns of nature.