Matthew Shetrone

Stay at the IAC: 14/01/2019 to 26/02/2019

Research line: Stellar and Interstellar Physics

Dr. Matthew Shetrone is a Senior Research Scientist with McDonald Observatory, and the Science Operations/Deputy Facilities Manager for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope.

He obtained his PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the UC Santa Cruz, USA, in 1996. From 1996 to 1997 he was a research fellow at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile. After that period, he returned to the McDonald Observatory where he is the resident astronomer for the Hobby Eberly Telescope (HET). He is in charge of running the night-to-night observations at the HET, collecting data for both himself and other astronomers.