2023 Guest Night 

Lee Feinberg

Lee Feinberg has been the Optical Telescope Element (OTE) Manager and optics lead for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland since 2002.  Earlier in his career, Lee was the Assistant Chief for Technology in the Instrument Systems and Technology Division at Goddard.  Prior to that, Lee held several roles as part of the optical team that repaired the Hubble Space Telescope on Serving Mission-1.  Lee was the Space Telescope Imaging Spectroscope Instrument Manager on Servicing Mission-2 and he co-led the concept study for Hubble Wide Field Camera-3.  Lee was a member of the Science and Technology Definition teams that led to the recently started Habitable Worlds Observatory and he is a member of the Roman Space Telescope Standing Review Board.  His research focuses on large and ultra-stable telescopes.   Lee is a Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Senior Fellow. Lee has received numerous NASA awards including the 2022 NASA Distinguished Service Medal and the Goddard Moe Schneebaum Memorial Award. Lee has a B.S. in Optics from University of Rochester and a M.S. in Applied Physics from Johns Hopkins University. 
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