Robert J. Nemiroff

Robert J. Nemiroff is an astrophysicist and professor of physics at Michigan Technological University. He earned a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Lehigh University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. Michigan Tech also notes that he worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center before joining the university.

His research has focused on topics including gamma-ray bursts, gravitational lensing, cosmology, and sky monitoring. Across his career, he has paired technical research with public-facing science writing, helping make difficult ideas in astronomy feel approachable.

He is especially known as the co-creator of Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD), the widely read NASA feature he launched in 1995 with Jerry Bonnell. Michigan Tech also credits him as a co-creator of the Astrophysics Source Code Library, a project that supports openness and transparency in astrophysics research.