Resume of Jacques L'Heureux Universities Space Research Association (USRA) 10211 Wincopin Circle, Suite 620 Columbia, MD 21044 Voice: 410-730-2656 Fax: 410-730-1359 Email: jlheureux at hq.usra.edu WWW: http://www.usra.edu/~jlheureux/ EDUCATION 1966 Ph.D. University of Chicago (Cosmic Ray Physics) 1962 MS University of Chicago 1961 BS Université de Montréal, Canada PREVIOUS AND PRESENT POSITIONS 1999 TO 2004 DIRECTOR FOR UNIVERSITY RELATIONS, UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (USRA), COLUMBIA, MD. * Develop and execute ways that USRA can expand and enhance the participation of universities in space related research 1990 TO 1999 SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST, BARTOL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, NEWARK, DE. * Instrument Manager for the MAG instrument (dual high resolution fluxgate magnetometers) on the Advanced Composition Explorer (1993- present) * Co-Investigator and Payload Manager in the re-proposal of the Positron Electron Magnet Spectrometer (POEMS) instrument (P.A. Evenson, PI) for a MIDEX mission. Selected for step-2 of the cycle but not selected for a mission. This international collaboration was valued at $31M and included a Ball Aerospace spacecraft (1994-1995) * Co-Investigator and Instrument Manager for POEMS during its phase A for a Small Explorer (SMEX) mission at a cost of $12M (1991-1992) * Co-Investigator with P.A. Evenson on a balloon borne cosmic ray instrument (1991-1992) * Co-Investigator and Instrument Manager for the POEMS instrument during its phase B for flight on the Earth Observing Satellites (EOS) for a 15 year mission at a cost of $47M. POEMS was deselected from EOS for budgetary reasons. (1990-1991) * Part time Computer Facilities Manager for Bartol's 20-node VMS/AXP cluster. (1992-present). 1978 TO 1990 SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, ENRICO FERMI INSTITUTE, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO IL. * Co-Investigator and Project Scientist (and Manager for the last 8 years) of the Cosmic Ray Nuclei Instrument (CRN) in collaboration with Professors Peter Meyer and Dietrich Müller. The instrument was flown on the Space Shuttle (Spacelab II) in 1985. A reflight was approved but later canceled due to the Challenger explosion. 1969 TO 1977 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, TUCSON, AZ. * Co-Investigator with Prof. C.Y. Fan on a grant from NASA for the construction and execution of a balloon borne instrument successfully flown in 1973 from Texas (1969-1977) * Principal Investigator on contract from Max-Plank Institute (Garching) for the construction and testing of two Gamma-Ray-Burst detector assemblies flown successfully on the ISEE mission (1976-1977) * Principal Investigator on grant from NASA for the analysis of OGO-5 data (1971-1973) * Undergraduate teaching (1969-1973). 1966 TO 1969 RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, ENRICO FERMI INSTITUTE, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO, IL. * Co-Investigator with Prof. Peter Meyer on the University of Chicago cosmic ray instrument (an electron detector) on OGO-5. AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIPS Since 2001 Member of the American Astronomical Society Since 1975 Fellow of the American Physical Society Since 1965 Member of the American Physical Society Since 1965 Member of the American Geophysical Union 1958-1961 General Motors of Canada Scholarship RELEVANT SKILLS 1. EXPERIMENTAL PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS (COSMIC RAYS) * Extensive experience in the design, fabrication, testing and calibration of cosmic ray instruments flown on balloons and earth satellites such as OGO-5, ISEE and Space Shuttle (CRN). Detectors included scintillators, Cerenkov detectors, transition radiation detectors, digitized optical spark chambers, multiwire proportional chambers and silicon strip detectors. * Basic knowledge of electronics and mechanical design sufficient to allow review of designs with engineers. * Data analysis of balloon data from an electron detector (Ph.D. thesis); of the OGO-5 electron detector; and of the 100-tape data set of the CRN instrument. Own programs were mostly written in FORTRAN. 2. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT * As Instrument Manager, monitored the hardware development of a large Space Shuttle instrument (CRN) and wrote most documents such as Instrument Functional Document, Payload Assurance Implementation Plan, Integration and Test Plan, and Testing Procedures. Same for the ACE/MAG instrument. * Led the technical group for the CRN development whose team peaked at 15 during the construction phase and included three electronics engineers, one mechanical engineer and two senior data analysts. * Led the technical effort in the many attempts at re-proposing the POEMS instrument for a SMEX and for a MIDEX mission. Handled the technical and cost sections of the proposals. Arranged for and led all co-investigator meetings. * Managerial software: Fluent with Lotus 1-2-3 and MS Excel, (spreadsheets); MS Word; and WordPerfect (word processing); MS Project ( project scheduling); MS Power Point (viewgraphs preparation); Designer, Visio, CADKEY and AutoCAD (figures preparation). 3. COMPUTERS LANGUAGES: Fluent with FORTRAN, IDL, Visual BASIC. Basic knowledge of C. OPERATING SYSTEMS: Fluent with OpenVMS, DOS/Windows 95. Basic knowledge of Unix and NT. CLIENT/SERVER SOFTWARE: Novell 2.15 PC network, NT 3.51 server with WFW 3.1 and W95 clients network, PathWorks/PC/Mac network with VAX cluster members as servers MIDSIZE CLUSTER: Maintained the hardware for a large VAX/AXP cluster of scientific workstations and servers. Duties included selecting and purchasing hardware and setting up a maintenance program. Yearly budget was $40K for new hardware and $50K for Hardware/Software maintenance (exclusive of local labor). 4. LANGUAGES Native French speaking CONTRACTS AND GRANTS 1996-1997 NSF. Academic Research Infrastructure Program, Co-Investigator with W. H. Matthaeus. ($101K) 1993-1994 NASA. Positron Electron Magnet Spectrometer (POEMS) mission for the small Explorer (SMEX) - Phase A Study, Co-Investigator with P.A. Evenson. ($495K) 1991-1994 NSF. Charge Dependence of Cosmic Ray Solar Modulation, Co-Investigator with P.A. Evenson. ($290K) 1986-1990 NASA. Data analysis grant to process the data from the Cosmic Ray Nuclei (CRN) instrument flown on Spacelab-2, Co-Investigator with P. Meyer, D. Müller and S. P. Swordy. ($1,342K) 1988-1991 NASA. Analysis and Interpretation of High Energy Cosmic Rays Measured on Spacelab-2, Co-Investigator with P. Meyer, D. Müller and S. P. Swordy. ($900K) 1985-1988 NASA/MSFC. Study of re-flight possibilities for the CRN instrument on the Sunlab/Dark-Sky mission on Space Shuttle, Co-Investigator with P. Meyer, D. Müller and S. P Swordy. ($1,699K) 1977-1988 NASA/MSFC. Design, construction and data analysis of the Cosmic Ray Nuclei (CRN) experiment flown on the Spacelab-2 mission on the Space Shuttle, Co-Investigator with P. Meyer, D. Müller and J. Lamport. ($10,288K for Hardware and $1,342K for Data Analysis) 1976-1977 Max-Plank Institute (Garching). Construction and testing of two Gamma-Ray-Burst detector assemblies for the ISEE mission, Principal Investigator. 1973-1974 University of Chicago. Data analysis of OGO-5 data. Principal Investigator. 1971-1973 NASA. Data Analysis of OGO-5 data, Principal Investigator. 1969-1977 NASA. Basic Research, Balloon Program, Co-Investigator with C. Y. Fan and K. C. Hsieh SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (OUT OF 43) "Solar Modulation of Cosmic Electrons", with J.M. Clem, D. P. Clements, J. Esposito, P. Evenson, and D. Huber, Astrophys. J. 464,507 (1996) "Performance of a Magnet Spectrometer Based on Digitizing Optical Spark Chambers", with J.M. Clem, D. P. Clements, C. Constantin, J. Esposito, P.A. Evenson, and D. Huber, Proc. of the 24th Intl. Cosmic Ray Conf. (Rome) 4, 1279 (1995) "Elemental Abundances in the Local Cosmic Rays at High Energies," with S.P. ,Swordy, P. Meyer, and D. Müller, Astrophys, J. 403, 658 (1993) "Development of Digital Optical Spark Chamber Hodoscopes for Balloon Payloads," with D. P. Clements, J. A. Esposito and P.A. Evenson, Proc. of the 22nd Intl. Cosmic Ray Conf. (Dublin) 2, 571 (1991) "Energy Spectra and Composition of Primary Cosmic Rays," with D. Müller, S.P. Swordy, P. Meyer, and J.M. Grunsfeld," Astrophys. J. 374, 356 (1991) "A Detector for Cosmic Ray Nuclei at Very High Energies," with J.M. Grunsfeld, P. Meyer, D. Müller, and S.P. Swordy, Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A295, 246 (1990) "Energy Spectra of Cosmic Ray Nuclei from 20 to 2000 GeV/amu," with J.M. Grunsfeld, P. Meyer, D. Müller, and S.P. Swordy, Astrophys. J. 327, L31 (1988) "The Development of a High Energy Cosmic Ray Detector for Spacelab-2," with P. Meyer, D. Müller and S.P. Swordy, Proc. of the 19th Intl. Cosmic Ray Conf. (La Jolla) 3, 276 (1985) "Measurements of X-Ray Transition Radiation from Plastic Fibers," with S.P. Swordy, D. Müller, and P. Meyer, Nucl. Inst. and Meth. 193, 591 (1982). "TOFFIMS: A Neutral Particle Mass Spectrometer," with K.C. Hsieh and C.Y. Fan, Proc. of the 15th Intl. Conf. on Cosmic Rays (Plovdiv) 9, 163 (1977). "Cosmic Ray Scintillations in the Frequency Range from 10-4 to 10-2 Hz," with N. Gehrels, Proc. of the 15th Intl. Conf. on Cosmic Rays (Plovdiv) 4, 335 (1977). "Quiet Time Increases of Low Energy Electrons: The Jovian Origin," with P. Meyer, Ap. J. 209, 955 (1976). "Cosmic Gamma-Ray Burst Detected with an Instrument on Board the OGO-5 Satellite," Ap. J. 187, L53 (1974). "The Quiet Time Spectra of Cosmic Ray Electrons of Energies Between 10 and 200 MV Observed on OGO-5," with P. Meyer and C.Y. Fan, Astrophys. J. 171, 363 (1972). "Primary Cosmic Ray Electron Energy Spectrum from 10 to 200 MeV Observed in Interplanetary Space," with P. Meyer and C.Y. Fan, Phys. Rev. Letters 23, 877 (1969). "The Primary Cosmic Ray Electron Spectrum Near Solar Minimum," Astrophys. J. 148, 399 (1967). Thesis for Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. Last modified: March 30, 2004