Tod R. Lauer is an associate astronomer on the research staff of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. He was a member of the Hubble Space Telescope WFPC team. His research interests includes observational searches for massive black holes in the centers of galaxies, the structure of elliptical galaxies, stellar populations, large scale structure of the Universe, and astronomical image processing. He is presently PI of the Destiny JDEM concept study. Wikipedia
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