Julie McEnery

Julie McEnery is an astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center where she is the senior project scientist for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Until 2020 she was the project scientist for the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope.

Biography McEnery received a PhD in Experimental Physics from University College Dublin in 1997. For her PhD, she observed the galaxy Markarian 421.

Before working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, McEnery worked on ground based gamma-ray telescopes to detect Cherenkov radiation.

University College Dublin dedicates a yearly medal and prize to a student in her honor. This award is given to the student in the universities MSc in Space Science and Technology with the highest cumulative GPA across all program modules and an overall GPA exceeding first class honors