{"id":13,"date":"2017-01-26T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:32:14","slug":"a-homepage-section","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesdermer.com\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello. My name is Charles Dermer. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was born in 1954 and grew up in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, \"\"a town in the western part of the state. Beginning i<\/span>n 1972, I studied physics and philosophy at the Claremont Colleges, located about 30 miles east of LA. I received a physics BS from Harvey Mudd College in 1977 and an experimental physics MA from Dartmouth College in 1980.\u00a0 I changed fields and studied theoretical astrophysics under Professor Robert J. Gould at the University of California, San Diego, and <\/span>was awarded a PhD degree from UCSD in 1984. I did postdoctoral work at NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center from 1984-1986, and at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab from 1987-1991. I was research scientist at Rice University from 1991-1992 before joining the Space Science Division of the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.
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From 1992 until I retired, in 2015, I was head of the High Energy Astrophysics Theory Section in the High Energy Space Environment Branch at NRL. My research specialty was high-energy radiations from black holes, neutron stars, and supernovae. See Science.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since leaving federal service, I have:\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n