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Eric
Perlman is an Assistant Research Professor at
the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where
he has just taken up a faculty post. His scientific
interests are in active galaxies, particularly those
with jets seen in optical and X-rays, and also in
blazars, which are highly variable AGNs in which
the relativistic jet appears to be pointed very
close to our line of sight. He also maintains a
continuing interest in large-scale surveys and multiwaveband
astronomy.
Perlman grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, where he became
interested in astronomy by staring at star clusters
and nebulae through a pair of binoculars in his
backyard. He attended Occidental College, a small
liberal arts college in Los Angeles, obtaining his
bachelor's degree in Physics in 1989. While a student
at Oxy, he obtained his first practical astronomy
research experience, working in the Southern Hemisphere
VLBI Experiment group at JPL. Perlman attended graduate
school at the University of Colorado, Boulder, obtaining
his Ph.D. in astrophysics in 1994. His thesis work
was "A Multi-wavelength Study of BL Lacertae Objects",
supervised by Professor John Stocke. After completing
his Ph.D, Dr. Perlman moved to the Baltimore-Washington
area, where he held postdoctoral fellowships at
both Goddard Space Flight Center (1994-96) and the
Space Telescope Science Institute (1996-99), before
moving across the street to Johns Hopkins University
as an Associate Research Scientist (1999-2000).
Perlman has a wide variety of interests besides
astronomy. He is a tournament-level chess player
(holding an expert's rating) and enjoys playing
Scrabble and bridge as well. Perlman is also a musician
who sings baritone with the Laurel Oratorio Society
and studies voice. He and his wife Heide Grobe live
in Columbia, Maryland.
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