I was born and raised in western Massachusetts and now live in southern Pennsylvania. I attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where I received a B.A. in astronomy, a B.A. in physics, and a Correlate (equivalent of a minor) in computer sciences. I then attended the University of Florida (Dept. of Astronomy) for graduate school, where my advisor was Dr. Jian Ge. I received a M.S. in astronomy, followed by my PhD, which I defended in the summer of 2011. I was then a postdoc at Penn State (Dept. of Astronomy) for 15 months working with Dr. Suvrath Mahadevan before moving to my current position at STScI in December of 2012.

You can contact me by sending an email (my last name at stsci.edu). I'm also on Twitter (@ScottWFleming). I do a fair amount of Python coding, so you may want to also check out my GitHub account, although a lot of my coding these days is spent on the spacetelescope repo.